Citations:wolfwhelp

English citations of wolfwhelp

• 1827, Walter Scott, The Works of Walter Scott, Esq. CIII: The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French; with a Preliminary View of the French Revolution III, Zwickau: printed for the brothers Schumann, chapter xiii: “View of the French Revolution”, page 50:

  This wretch, a shoemaker called Simon, asked his employers, “what was to be done with the young wolfwhelp; Was he to be slain?” — “No.” — “Poisoned?” — “No.” — “Starved to death?” — “No.” — “What then?” — “He was to be got rid of.”

• 1903, Whitley Stokes, “The death of Crimthann son of Fidach, and the adventures of the sons of Eochaid Muigmedón” in Revue Celtique XXIV, ed. Marie Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville (chief editor, assisted by Émile Ernault, Joseph Loth, and Georges Dottin), page 185:

  Eochaid’s sons, high their brightness, // including Niall, Caìrenn’s wolfwhelp, etc.

• 1972, The Bulletin of The Board of Celtic Studies XXIV, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, page 430:

  Olr. cana, cano ‘cub, whelp (wolfwhelp)’⁷ and W. cenau, cenaw ‘cub, whelp, puppy, son, descendant, young warrior, etc.’⁸ are both well attested as personal names.⁹