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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;