- svelja
- pres. svelr; pret. svalði, to swell, an obsolete word, only two forms of which are recorded; gadd svelr blóðug-hadda, Edda 23 (in a verse); húfar svölðu, Edda (Ht.)
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.