ellen, st. n., _strength, heroic strength, bravery_: nom. sg. ellen, 573; eafoð and ellen, 903; Geáta ... eafoð and ellen, 603; acc. sg. eafoð and ellen, 2350; ellen cýðan, _show bravery_, 2696; ellen fremedon, _exercised heroic strength, did heroic deeds_, 3; similarly, ic gefremman sceal eorlîc ellen, 638; ferh ellen wräc, _life drove out the strength_, i.e. with the departing life (of the dragon) his strength left him, 2707; dat. sg. on elne, 2507, 2817; as instr. þâ wäs ät þam geongum grim andswaru êðbegête þâm þe ær his elne forleás, _then it was easy for_ (every one of) _those who before had lost his hero-courage, to obtain rough words from the young man_ (Wîglâf), 2862; mid elne, 1494, 2536; elne, alone, in adverbial sense, _strongly, zealously_, and with the nearly related meaning, _hurriedly, transiently_, 894, 1098, 1968, 2677, 2918; gen. sg. elnes lät, 1530; þâ him wäs elnes þearf, 2877.--Comp. mägen-ellen. ellen-dæd, st. f., _heroic deed_: dat. pl. -dædum, 877, 901. ellen-gæst, st. m., _strength-spirit, demon with heroic strength_: nom. sg. of Grendel, 86. ellen-lîce, adv., _strongly, with heroic strength_, 2123. ellen-mærðu, st. f., _renown of heroic strength_, dat. pl. -mærðum, 829, 1472. ellen-rôf, adj., _renowned for strength_: nom. sg. 340, 358, 3064; dat. pl. -rôfum, 1788. ellen-seóc, adj., _infirm in strength_: acc. sg. þeóden ellensiócne (_the mortally wounded king, Beówulf_), 2788. ellen-weorc, st. n., (_strength-work_), _heroic deed, achievement in battle_: acc. sg. 662, 959, 1465, etc.; gen. pl. ellen-weorca, 2400. elles, adv., _else, otherwise_: a (modal), _in another manner_, 2521.--b (local), elles hwær, _somewhere else_, 138; elles hwergen, 2591. ellor, adv., _to some other place_, 55, 2255. ellor-gâst, -gæst, st. m., _spirit living elsewhere_ (standing outside of the community of mankind): nom. sg. se ellorgâst (Grendel), 808; (Grendel's mother), 1622; ellorgæst (Grendel's mother), 1618; acc. pl. ellorgæstas, 1350. ellor-sîð, st. m., _departure, death_: nom. sg. 2452. elra, adj. (comparative of a not existing form, ele, Goth. aljis, alius), _another_: dat. sg. on elran men, 753. el-þeódig, adj., _of another people: foreign_: acc. pl. el-þeódige men, 336. ende, st. m., _the extreme_: hence, 1) _end_: nom. sg. aldres (lîfes) ende, 823, 2845; ôð þät ende becwom (scil. unrihtes), 1255; acc. sg. ende lîfgesceafta (lîfes, læn-daga), 3064, 1387, 2343; häfde eorðscrafa ende genyttod, _had used the end of the earth-caves_ (had made use of the caves for the last time), 3047; dat. sg. ealdres (lîfes) ät ende, 2791, 2824; eoletes ät ende, 224.--2) _boundary_: acc. sg. sîde rîce þät he his selfa ne mäg ... ende geþencean, _the wide realm, so that he himself cannot comprehend its boundaries_, 1735.--3) _summit, head_: dat. sg. eorlum on ende, _to the nobles at the end_ (the highest courtiers), 2022.--Comp. woruld-ende. ende-däg, st. m., _last day, day of death_: nom. sg. 3036; acc. sg. 638.