Pridwen

“He henge an his sweore [neck] acne sceld deore,

His nome on Brutisc [in British] Pridwen ihaten [called].”

Layamon: Brut (twelfth century)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.