'For of eld beings exalted my kind; beings as strange as their deeds.'
-The Cat and the Skull
eld.
[eld]
NOUN
1. old age.
2. former times; the past.
ORIGIN
Old English ieldu, eldu, of Germanic origin; related to elder and old.
A Well of Heroes: Two:
Literary Impressions of the Prose and Verse of Robert E. Howard