atorsceaþa

== Old English == === Etymology === ātor (“venom”) +‎ sċeaþa (“destroyer, ravager”) === Noun === ātorsċeaþa m (poetic) a "venemous destroyer," used to describe the dragon in Beowulf. === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “áttor-sceaða”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.