Welwan (?)

According to the Old English Dictionary:

welwan (?)

to seize:--Wyleþ (printed wylcþ; but see Lchdm. iii. 373, col. 1 under wylan, where also Cockayne notes that the Latin is captat, not raptat) captat (printed raptat), Germ. 389, 42. [Goth. wilwan; p. walw to seize.] welwan