Torne

[ tawr-nuh ]

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noun

a river in N Sweden, forming part of the Swedish-Finnish border, flowing SE to the Gulf of Bothnia. 354 miles (570 km) long.

Fortune says:—'I torne the whirlinge wheel with the torning cercle'; Boethius, bk.

Wherefore after they had tossed it from one to another (by the meanes whereof it was torne) they did neglect and cast it aside.

The hamlet is situated near the junction of the Torne river with the Muonio, and had a church.

Moreover, we were advertised that there lay in the way where we should passe, many dead bodies eaten and torne with wolves.

And the one went out from me and it is sayde of a suertie that he is torne in peaces of wyld beastes/ and I sawe him not sence.

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