gloam

Gloam was too plainly in a state of delirious frenzy, if he were not actually mad.

They brought the yellow-haired little maiden to the mill (ran the story), and Gloam called her Swanhilda.

But Gloam had become more terrible in his desolation than a less naturally gentle man would have been; and Jael feared him.

The explanation of his behaviour which Gloam himself had given seemed, upon reflection, reasonable enough.