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Dave Wilton, Saturday, March 31, 2007

This word for a celestial ball of flaming hydrogen dates back to the Old English word steorra. From the Vespasian Psalter, c.825:

Hergað hine alle steorran & leht.
(Plundered him all the stars & light.)

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