WITNESS / 340
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 340
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
OED cites the plural for fallen angels or evil spirits. This remains a source-reported lexical witness rather than a directly inspected manuscript object.
Old EnglishOld English, source-reportedestablished
fēond
Guthlac A, fallen spirits
“No þær þa feondas gefeon þorfton”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Source-reported corpus record
- YEAR
- 1000
- LOCATOR
- Guthlac A 421
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERfēond ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 1166 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Oxford English Dictionary — fiend, n., revised 2026
- AUTHOR
- Oxford English Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Oxford University Press
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- oed-fiend-2026