Swyld

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - swyld

According to the Old English Dictionary:

(?), e;

swyld
f. A pang:--Sár(þar, MS.) mé ymbsealde swylde(Grein suggests swylce) deáðes trouble encompassed me, the pangs of death; circumdederunt me dolores mortis, Ps. Th. 114, 3. and cf. cwyld, cwelan. swyld

Related words: swelan,

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