Wallow, to roll about upon the ground, e.g.  “Fafnir, the wallower on the gold.”

Wan, pale, pinched with suffering.

Wane, to fade away, grow dim.

Warding-walls, guarding-walls. “Warding walls of death,” man’s armour that keeps death from him.

Wards, keepers, e.g. door-wards; cf. warden.  Fafnir is called “the gold-warden.”

War-wand, a sword.

Wary, careful, ever on the watch.

Waste, to destroy, to sweep away, e.g.  Sigurd is said to “waste every wrong.”

Waxen, grown, become.

Weal, happiness, good-fortune.

Wedge-array, an arrangement of fighting men in which they stood close together in the form of a triangle.

Weed, dress.

Well up, to rise as a spring bubbles out of the ground; used of feelings with the meaning “to arise and grow strong,” e.g.  “Wrath in his heart wells up.”

Welter, the toss and ripple of the sea-waves.

Wend, to go.

Whetted, stirred up, made sharp or eager, e.g. “the whetted Wrath.”

Whileome, in the past, once upon a time.

Whiles, from time to time.

Whit, a very small particle, a trifle, e.g. never a whit, no whit.

Wight, a man, a creature, e.g. sea-wights, great sea-monsters.

Wise, way, manner, after the fashion of.

Witch-wife, witch.  Wife here means woman.

Wold, a hill; often used to mean open country.

Wood-craft, knowledge of the woods and of all creatures in them, e.g.  “His wood-craft waxed so great, that he seemed the king of the creatures.”

Wot, to know.

Wrack, strife, destruction, ruins. Wrack of a mighty battle, the dead left on the field.

Wrights, workmen, makers.

Writhen, bent, twisted out of shape, e.g.  “Writhen and foul were the hands that made it glorious.”

Written spear, a spear carved with letters or words.

Yearn, to long, to feel tenderness towards, e.g.  “My heart to him doth yearn.”

Yore, long ago; generally used in the expression “of yore,” formerly, once upon a time.

LONGMANS’ CLASS-BOOKS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

Each Volume contains an Introduction and Notes.

Alcott’s Little Women.

Allen’s Heroes of Indian History and Stories of their Times.  With Maps and Illustrations.

Anderson’s English Letters selected for Reading in Schools.

Arnold’s Sohrab and Rustum, and Balder Dead.

Ballantyne’s The Coral Island. (Abridged).

Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.