spilla sifjum

Old Norse

Verb

spilla sifjum

(poetic) to "defile kinship"; to commit incest
- 10th century, Vǫluspá
  Brǿðr munu bęrjask · ok at bǫnum verðask,
  munu systrungar · sifjum spilla;
  Brothers shall fight and fell each other; sisters’ sons will defile the kinship;

Related terms

sifjaspell (“kinship-defilement; incest”)

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