Ge-sweorcan

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

ge-sweorcan

Add: I. of physical darkness :-- Bið úpheofon sweart and gesworcen tristius coelum tenebris obducitur atris, Dón. L. 105 : Wlfst. 137, 9. II. of dark passions, (l) sadness :-- Ic geþencan ne mæg for hwan módsefa mín ne gesweorce, Wand. 59. (2) fear :-- Wé férað gesworcene mid ege and mid fyrhðu, Verc. Forst. 147, 18. (3) anger :-- Wearð gecýdd þám cyninge embe Iudan sige, and he geswearc on móde (when king Antiochius heard these things, he was full of indignation, I Mace. iii. 27), Hml. S. 25, 329. III. of mental darkness , to become unconscious, lose perceptive power (?) :-- Ic geswearc swá swá dead from heortan excidi tamquam mortuus a corde, Ps. Vos. 30, 13. ge-sweorcan