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an adaptation of *orcen assumed as sing. of orcneas in Beowulf, (?) monsters or sea-monsters.
| a 1000 Beowulf 112 Eotenas and ylfe and orcneas. 1855 Thorpe tr. Beowulf 225 Thence monstrous births all sprang forth, eotens, and elves, and orkens. |