Súsl

Old English Dictionary Entry

Súsl

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; Related words: cwic-súsl; seóslig. susl

Definitions

1 súsl

n.: e; f. Torment, (1) where the word is certainly neuter:--Se seáð ðæs sing[alan] súsles, Nar. 50, 23. Súsles þegnum, Exon. Th. 275, 30: Jul. 558: 304, 18; Fä. 72. Hié ðæt súsl þrowiende wǽron, Ors. 1, 12; Swt. 54, 26. In ðæt swearte súsl (hell), Exon. Th. 142, 4; Gú. 639. Ða ungeendodan súslo ðú byst þrowigende, Nicod. 29; Thw. 17, 12. Helle súslu inferni supplicia, Scint. 27, 8. (2) where the word is feminine:--Ðeós hellíce súsl hic tartarus, Ælfc. Gr. 13; Zup. 86, 4. Fram ðam écan hungre helle súsle, Ælfc. Gen. Thw. 3, 26. Geférlǽhte on ánre súsle, Homl. Th. i. 132, 20. Faraþ hig on éce súsle, and ða rihtwísan on ðæt éce líf ibúnt hi in supplicium aeternum, justi autem in vitam aeternam, Mt. Kmbl. 25, 46. Hú hé synfullum súsle gefremme, Wulfst. 138, 9: Dóm. L. 153. (3) where the gender is uncertain:--Ðé is súsl weotod, Cd. Th. 308, 14; Sat. 692: 257, 8; Dan. 654. Satan on súsle (dat. or acc.) gefeól, 309, 20; Sat. 712. Súsle geinnod, 3, 28; Gen. 42. Swingan, súsle þreágan, Exon. Th. 251, 9; Jul. 142. Súsl þrowian, Cd. Th. 5, 22; Gen. 75: 255, 9; Dan. 621. Súsel, 267, 21; Sat. 41. Hafastú máre súsel, 268, 33; Sat. 64. In súsla grund, Elen. Kmbl. 1885; El. 944: Exon. Th. 98, 8; Crl. 1604. On hwilcum súslum hé móste écelíce cwylmian, Homl. Th. i. 86, 2. Súslum beþrungen, Elen. Kmbl. 1896; El. 950: Exon. Th. 10, 8; Cri. 149. [Grein compares the word with Icelandic forms, sýsl, sýsla business, sýsl painstaking, sýsla to do business, sýsliga busily.]

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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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