qvælia (OSw) verb

Literally ‘to torment’. To complain about something that could be handled at the þing ‘assembly’ (translated as ‘to complain’, ‘to challenge’, ‘to contest’, ‘to criticize’), also to summon a formal meeting, particularly a þing, and occasionally understood as initiating legal proceedings (reflected in translations such as ‘to bring a case (against)’, ‘to prosecute’, ‘to sue (for)’, ‘to appeal’).


appeal OSw DL Bb
bring a case (against) OSw DL Gb
OSw UL Mb, Rb

bring a case of inheritance against OSw DL Gb
challenge OSw DL Bb
OSw MESt Kmb
OSw UL Kkb, Blb, Rb
OSw VmL Kkb, Mb, Jb, Rb

claim OSw MEL Jb
complain OSw HL Kkb
complain (about something) OSw UL Mb
OSw VmL Mb

contest OSw KrL DbII
OSw SdmL Äb, Jb, Mb

convene OSw SdmL Rb
criticize OSw HL Mb, Rb
dispute OSw KrL Gb Jb Rb
OSw MEL Gb Rb
OSw MESt Rb

lay claim OSw MEL Äb
OSw MESt Äb

make demands of OSw UL Kkb, Mb
OSw VmL Mb

persecute OSw UL Mb
OSw VmL Mb

prosecute OSw DL Kkb, Bb
OSw HL Mb

raise a challenge OSw UL Kkb, Kgb
OSw VmL Kkb, Jb, Kmb

sue OSw HL Mb
sue for OSw VmL Mb

Citation
  • ‘qvælia’. A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law.

  • http://www.dhi.ac.uk/lmnl/nordicheadword/displayPage/4236
    (04/19/2024)