Self-cwalu

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - self-cwalu

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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self-cwalu
f. Self-slaughter, suicide:-- Sum sceal ful earmlíce ealdre linnan . . . and hine tó sylfcwale secgas nemnaþ speak of him as committing suicide, Exon. Th. 330, 24; Vy. 56. [Cf. We scole witan, þet nan seolfcwale, þet is aȝensclaȝa, ne cumeð to godes riche, O. E. Homl. i. 103, 3.] self-cwalu
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