Self-sceaft

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

es;

self-sceaft

m. Self-shaping, spontaneous generation, applied to Adam, who had not father and mother :-- Adam maþelode ðǽr hé on eorþan stód selfsceafte guma a man by spontaneous generation. Cd. Th. 33, 20; Gen. 523. self-sceaft