wroth

For some reason, this word always invokes in me images of Vikings in full plunder-mode. It's an excellent adjective, denoting the enraged, the wrathful. Like the previous two words, it is rather antiquated; in spite of this, or perhaps because of it, it more bluntly and solidly evokes great rage and power than the more common "wrath," perhaps because it connotes the rage of entire past civilizations through its current obsolescence. Or maybe I simply find the short "o" sound more primal, more animalistic than the short "a" in such a brief word. "Wroth" has a perceptual bulk, a weight upon hitting the ear, that "wrath" seems to lose with some delicacy. I suppose I just find "a" too goody-two-shoed a vowel to handle such bloody fare on its own...if it makes any sense to grant letters any sort of character.