Wordhord comes from the Old English book "Beowulf". Beowulf has only survived in one manuscript, dating from perhaps the 10th century, but the story itself is much older. The epic tells of the hero, Beowulf, King of the Geats, who battles, first with monsters and then with a dragon.

Wordhord means literally a store of words, a vocabulary, but also represents a person's knowledge and experience.

For more information on Beowulf see Seamus Heaney's translation or listen to some of it here.