gledes

Ere the races were yet mingled, or the folk of men grew, Yawning-gap, which looked towards the north parts, was filled with thick and heavy ice and rime, and everywhere within were fog and gusts; but the south side of Yawning-gap lightened by the sparks and gledes that flew out of Muspell-heim; as cold arose out of

The Story of the Volsungs 2008

They took the sparks and gledes that went loose, and had been cast out of Muspellheim, and set them in the lift to give light; they gave resting-places to all fires, and set some in the lift; some fared free under it, and they gave them a place and shaped their goings.

The Story of the Volsungs 2008

And the fowles of raveyne of alle the contree abouten knowen the custom of long tyme before, and comen fleenge aboyen in the eyr, as egles, gledes, ravenes and othere foules of raveyne, that eten flesche.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And the fowls of ravine of all the country about know the custom of long time before, [and] come flying above in the air; as eagles, gledes, ravens and other fowls of ravine, that eat flesh.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And the fowles of raveyne of alle the contree abouten knowen the custom of long tyme before, and comen fleenge aboyen in the eyr, as egles, gledes, ravenes and othere foules of raveyne, that eten flesche.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And, by waiting with patience, the gledes did take two more.

A Boy's Ride Gulielma Zollinger

Darkness, black as a raven from head to foot, thousand-handed and with a long thick tail covered with fiery spikes, 'lying on an iron hurdle over fiery gledes, a bellows on each side of him, and a crowd of demons blowing it.'

Love's Final Victory Horatio

His last throes splintered it to sparks and gledes.

The Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R. 1938

Haunt of gledes, and restless plovers of the melancholy wail,

Coogee 1895

Then from the ship leaped the Prince, far-darting Apollo, like a star at high noon, while the gledes of fire flew from him, and the splendour flashed to the heavens.

The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Andrew Lang 1878