Old English wār as Seaweed

Anglo-Saxon vocabulary contains words denoting seaweed, which mostly occur as renderings of Latin alga “seaweed.” The purpose of this paper is to show how the Old English terms for seaweed appear in the Old English context, and what we can elucidate from the evidence. As a result, we find that wār is a common term for seaweed in Old English, and the word form survives in Modern English, especially in British dialects. It is reasonable to say that the Anglo-Saxons knew how to utilize the seaweed, and the culture has been transmitted until today.