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Sweghleothre

original: sweʒleoþre

sound-skin [?]
Bagpipe

Anglo-Saxon (Ænglisc, spoken in the early Middle Ages); Translation in Buhle: "Klangleder" [sound-leather], in Galpin: "sounding skin"; NB: ➺ Otre, and Swechleothre.

Sources

Buhle (1), p.48.

Galpin, Francis William: Old English instruments of music: their history and character. London, s.a. [1910], p.174.

Podnos, Theodor H.: Bagpipes and tunings. Detroit, 1974, p.18 (»Galpin), 47, 49.