A small mountain lake, originally Middle English from old Norse: tjorn.  In Beowulf, it refers to the watery home of Grendel’s mother: ‘the tarn-hag in her terrible strength’.
Source: Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, p. 50
Care for a tarn dip?
A small mountain lake, originally Middle English from old Norse: tjorn.  In Beowulf, it refers to the watery home of Grendel’s mother: ‘the tarn-hag in her terrible strength’.
Source: Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, p. 50
