Burin vs Bruin - What's the difference?
burin | bruin |
A folk name for a bear, especially the brown bear, Ursus arctos .
*1989 , (Keith Bosley), translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala , XVII:
*:The mother sought the one gone / astray, for the lost she longs: / she ran great swamps as a wolf / trod the wilds as a bruin / waters as an otter roamed […].
