middaneard

Old English

Etymology

From middan- (“middle; amid; between”) + eard; influenced by pre-existing middanġeard.

Noun

middaneard

(Late West Saxon) Middle Earth: Earth, the world (especially) conceived as a realm between (Christianity) heaven or (paganism) Asgard and hell or Niflheim.
- 10th century, "Anglo-Saxon Manual of Astronomy":
  Middaneard is gehaten eall þæt binnan þam firmamentum is.
  All that is within the firmament is called the world.

Synonyms

middanġeard; eorþ

Descendants

Middle English: myddyl erthe, middel-erde (in part)
- English: Middle Earth

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