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að, to slouch; labbaðu veginn, Blesi, a ditty.
(að), v.
1) to bid, invite (l. gesti);
2) to lead (l. menn til eilífrar sælu);
3) refl., laðast, to be drawn (laðast allir til Broddhelga).
að, [Ulf. laþon = καλειν; A. S. laðjan; Hel. lathjan; O. H. G. ladon; Germ. laden]:—to bid, invite a guest; Geirríðr sparði ekki mat við menn, ok lét göra skála sinn um þjóðbraut þvera, hón sat á stóli ok laðaði úti gesti, en borð stóð inni jafnan, ok matr á, Landn. 100; ok munu menn mæla, at sá laði er ráðin á, Bjarn. 53; Broddhelgi bauð þeim þar at vera … Þorsteinn spurði hví hann laðaði gesti, Þorst. hv. 44; laða hirð í höll, Edda (Ht.); ef hann er kurteisliga laðaðr, Fms. x. 234: metaph., laða menn til sín, to draw one to oneself, Skálda (in a verse), Harms. 65, Líkn. 28; laða menn til eilífrar sælu, Fb. i. 517; ok laðar til hugskota várra Drottinn sjálfan ok Engla hans, Hom. 149: reflex., laðask, to be drawn; ok laðask allir til Broddhelga, Vápn. 19, but perhaps better hlaðask, see hlaða (fine).
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m. an invitation. laðaðs-maðr, m. = laðmaðr; ok beið hann af því sem l. hans jarteina, Bs. i. 303.
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or löðun, f. an invitation.
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or latrún, m. [from Lat. latro, -nis], a robber, Al. 68, Stj. 91.
n. invitation; þiggja ~ at e-m, to accept an invitation.
n. an invitation, bidding; þiggja laðorð at e-m, Bjarn. 53, and perhaps in the corrupt passage Bs. i. 142 instead of leitorð or letorð.
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n. a lap; kjól-laf, hempu-laf.
(lafi, lafða, lafat), v. to hang-loosely, dangle.
pres. lafi, pret. lafði, pass. pret. neut. lafað:—to hang, dangle, as a flap; loddi köggullinn á sinunum—þá mælti Oddi, lát lafa, muna þeir mein er þiggja, Lv. 86; kom á fótinn við öklat, ok tók af svá at lafði við, Sturl. ii. 70; þat it litla ok vesalliga (höfuð) sem lafir á þínum hálsi, Bjarn. 68: metaph. to dangle, ok þykki mér sem ekki torfæri sé á leið minni þóttú lafir á stigum, Fs. 32; lengi hefi ek lifat í haugi mínum ok lafat á fé, Fas. ii. 271.
f. lady (þú ert vár ~).
f. [from Early Engl. lefdye; Engl. lady; A. S. hlæfdige; but borrowed at a time when the initial aspirate had already been lost in the Engl.]:—a lady, Sks. 455, 457, MS. 4. 7, and now and then in mod. poetry, but the word never took root.
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m. a pr. name = Lawrence, Bs.: Lafranz-dagr, m., -messa, u, f., -vaka, u, f. the day, mass, vigil of St. Lawrence, Bs., Fms.
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n., Ivar Aasen laft = the coin or joint in a wooden building, D. N. passim; cp. lopt. laft-steinn, m. a laft stone, D. N.
a. quaking with fear.
adj. quivering, quaking from fear, Gísl. 60, Hem.
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m. ‘wag-beard,’ a nickname, Landn.
n.
1) stratum, layer;
2) due place, right position;
leggja stýri í ~, to ship the rudder;
ganga ór ~i, to go wrong;
fóru nú brýnn hans í ~, his brows became smooth and straight;
koma ~i á e-t, to put to rights, get a thing into order;
komast vel í ~, to fall into good order;
3) companionship, fellowship;
leggja (binda) saman ~ sitt, to enter into fellowship;
4) living together (hann réðst til ~s við Beru);
5) cohabitation;
eiga ~ við konu, to cohabit;
6) market price, tax;
leggja ~ á varning manna, to set or regulate the market price;
7) thrust, stab (with a knife, sword, or spear);
8) air, tune;
9) adverbial phrases:
í tvennu ~i, in two parts, double;
í öllu ~i, in every respect, quite;
í sumu (mörgu) ~i, in same (many) respects;
with compar. or superl., denoting degree;
í meira ~i, considerably, rather;
í fyrra ~i, rather early, among the earliest;
í verra ~i, among the worst;
í hljóðara ~i, rather silent;
í nærra ~i, rather close;
þann dag svaf Unnr í lengra ~i, U. slept that day longer than she was wont;
Helias var í fyrsta ~i spámanna, H. …
n. [leggja], a stratum, layer; vóru þá Varbelgir at taka af þau lög sem eptir vóru brúarinnar, Fms. ix. 512: freq. in mod. usage, e. g. lag í vegg, a layer or course of masonry.
II. metaph. shape, Lat. forma:
1. a laying in order, due place, right position; leggja stýri í lag, to ship the rudder in its place, hook it on, Fms. vii. 47; leggja stýri ór lagi, to unship the rudder, Al. 67; ganga ór lagi, to be displaced, get wrong, Fms. viii. 291; fóru nú brýnn hans í lag, his brows became smooth and straight, of a man frowning, Eg. 306; koma lagi á e-t, to make a thing right, get a thing into order, Fms. xi. 28; hann kvaðsk eigi lagi mundu á koma fyrir næstu vetrnætr, 67; fylkingar hans komask vel í lag, his ranks fell into good order, Al. 142; brugðit er nú lagi ór því sem vant er, i. e. matters go wrong, not as they were wont to go, Grett. 183 new Ed.; nærri lagi, pretty well.
2. companionship, fellowship, in an enterprise of peace or war; leggja saman lag sitt, to enter into fellowship, Orkn. 88; þeir áttu mikit lag við Þveræinga, Lv. …
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I) (að), v. to prepare, make ready (~t var drykkju).
II) from lög, law.
1. að, [lögr; Dan. lave], to mix a beverage. Am. 72, Hm. 65.
II. to flow readily, esp. of blood, to bleed freely; það lagar, or það lagablæðir, qs. lagar og blæðir.
2. að, [lag], to shape, put right, mend, (mod.): reflex. to set right, það lagast.
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or lögun, f. a mending, putting right.
n. breach of law.
n. breach of law, contempt of law, Grág. ii. 39, 345.
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u, f. a lawful demand, Jb. 250.
n. statute.
n. a ‘law-bidding,’ statute, Grág. (pref.)
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n. law-commandments; Tíu Lagaboðorð, the Ten Commandments.
f. law-book, = lögbók.
n. a law-book, Rb. 420, Fms. viii. 277.
m. law-breaker.
m. a law-breaker, Clem. 44.
n. breach of law.
n. a breach of law, Eb. 24, Rd. 275, Fms. vii. 172, Al. 65, passim.
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m. law-amender, nickname of a king.
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f. pl. lawsuits.
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m. a lawful judgment, Gþl. 179.
m. lawful oath, = lögeiðr.
m. a lawful oath, Fms. vii. 307.
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f. pl. law-quirks.
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m. a lawful respite, K. Á. 22.
f. legal inquiry.
f. a legal enquiry, Fms. iv. 203.
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f. a legal donation, N. G. L. i. 346.
f. article of law.
f. an article of law, Sturl. iii. 13.
f. maintenance of the law.
u, f. law-maintenance, Sks. 441, 522.
n. keeping of the law.
n. law-keeping, Hom.
f. pl. the tables of the law.
f. pl. the tables of the law, of the Decalogue, Ver. 22.
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f. obedience to law, H. E. i. 434.
n. legal bargain.
n. a legal bargain, Grág. ii. 213.
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n. a ‘law-stick’ (a fiery cross), N. G. L. i. 216.
n. lawful marriage.
n. a lawful marriage, Sturl. i. 94.
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adj. lawless, MS. 677. 5.
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u, f. lawful rent, N. G. L. i. 236.
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n. a law protest, Nj. 187.
m. evasion of law.
n. an evasion of law, Grág. ii. 24, 37, 41, Nj. 187.
m. man of law, lawyer.
m. a lawyer, a man of law; hann var svá mikill lagamaðr at engir þóttu löglegir dómar, nema hann væri í, Nj. 1; sagði Njáll mér svá, at hann hefði svá kermt Þórhalli lög at hann mundi mestr lagamaðr vera á Íslandi, 237; Eyjólfr var hinn þriði mestr lagamaðr (v. l.) á Íslandi, 222, Ld. 332, passim.
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n. a legal decision, Gþl. xii. (pref.)
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n. a law word, of the Commandments, Hom. 72; Tíu lagaorð, Pr. 437.
n. legal proof.
n. a legal proof, Bs. i. 852.
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f. law-punishment, Gþl. (pref.)
f. lawmending.
f. law-mending, Nj. 238, v. l.
m. legal, personal right.
m. a legal personal right, Fms. viii. 272: legal satisfaction, Gþl. 202.
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f. a legal voidance; lagaripting á landi, escheatage, Dipl. ii. 6.
f. legislation.
f. legislation, Jb. (pref.), Fms. i. 33, v. 102, Orkn. 124; this word requires explanation,—in old writers it means the constitution, the fundamental laws or political constitution of a commonwealth; as Ari, the historian, says, ‘frá Íslands bygð, frá landnáms-mönnum ok lagasetning,’ of the settlement of Iceland, of her settlers and her political constitution, Íb. (pref.); where lagasetning refers to the institution of the alþing, and the other events related in Íb. ch. 2 and 3; so also, ritaði hann (viz. Ari) mest í upphafi sinnar bókar um Íslands bygð (the settlement), ok lagasetning (constitution), Hkr. (pref.), referring to the constitutional laws of Ulfljot recorded in ch. 2 of the Icelander Book; lagasetning here exactly answers to what Konrad Maurer, by a mod. term, calls ‘die entstehung des Isländisches staates.’ So also of the laws of king Hakon the Good (cp. the remarks s. v. þing), lagasetning Hákonar konungs, … hann (the king) var maðr stórvitr, ok lagði mikinn hug á lagasetning, hann ‘setti’ Gulaþings-lög …, Hkr. i. 135 (cp. Fms. i. 31): again, in Ó. H. 227 it answers to the mod. word legislation (of the laws of Sweyn, the son of Alfifa), and so Orkn. …
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m. legal divorce.
m. a legal divorce, Nj. 14.
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n. a legal provision, Gþl. 166.
f.
1) legislation;
2) ordering of the law.
f. an enactment, Stj. 281: ordering of the law, Sks. 665.
n. change of law.
n. a change of law, Fms. ix. 336, Sturl. iii. 307.
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m. a pettifogger.
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f. a legal prosecution, Gþl. 489.
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u, f. a law summons, Gþl. 29, Jb. 302: a fixed law term, N. G. L. i. 340.
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n. lawful bail, Gþl. 124.
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f. the Law period, of the Jews, Hom.
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u, f. a legal plea, acquittal, N. G. L. i. 145.
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m. a legal decision Gþl. 508, Grág. (pref.)
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n. a lawful weapon, N. G. L. ii. 246.
m. lawful course.
m. course of law, fara lagaveg, Mar., Bs. ii. 125.
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að, to ‘enwool,’ enrich.
m. tuft of wool (ullar-~) or hair (röggr eða ~).
m. a lock of wool (ullar-l.), Sæm. 131, Fas. iii. 386, Krók. ch. 13, passim, lagð-fagr, -góðr, -prúðr, adj. with fine fleece, of sheep.
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að, [lögg], to put the bottom into a cask.
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a, m. [lögg], a cooper, N. G. L. ii. 245.
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part. skilful, expert.
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m. smooth ice; see íss.
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u, f. a boat for net-fishing.
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m. a laying; neta-l., a laying nets.
COMPDS: lagnaðaríss, lagnaðarskúta.
gen. from lögn.
see lögn.
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f. laying: addition, lagningar vika, extra weak, Rb. 576.
f. concubine.
u, f. a concubine, Bs. i. 802.
m. companion, comrade.
m. a companion, Grág. ii. 10, Fbr. 195, Karl. 513, Fms. ii. 87, iv. 277, vii. 250, passim.
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m. a fellow, brother, companion, MS. 4. 22.
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ð, to mend, put right.
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f. a mending, putting to rights.
f. the pastern (of sheep).
n. the pastern of sheep, Fas. i. 63.
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adj. skilful.
adv. meetly, handsomely.
adv. meetly, handsomely; skilja l., Sturl. iii. 17: mod. neatly.
a. meet, fit (~ skilnaðr).
adj. fit, meet, l. skilnaðr, Sturl. iii. 255, Mar., Ld. 272: mod. neat, handsome, freq.
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n. a net to be laid, catch-net, opp. to a drag-net.
n. weapon for thrusting or stabbing (opp. to höggvápn).
n. a thrashing weapon, Eg. 580.
from leka.
n. = lakan; lín-lak.
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n. [A. S. lacan; Dan. lagen], a bed-sheet, Boldt.
m. third stomach in ruminating animals (feljóttr sem laki).
a, m. the maw in ruminating animals, Fbr. 156, freq. in mod. usage.
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n. sealing-wax, [cp. Dutch segel-lak, Germ. siegel-lack.]
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að, to seal, (mod. and for.)
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adv. lacking, badly.
a.
1) lacking in quality (þat lið, sem lakast var);
2) deficient (in weight).
adj., lakari, lakastr, [Engl. lack], lacking, defective, of weight, measure; lakr penningr, Bs. i. 325; þrjá laupa laka, D. N. iii. 116; lök mörk: lacking in quality, þat lið sem lakast var, Fms. ix. 361, v. l.; láta sinn hlut lakara verða, Bárð. 9 new Ed.; hin lakari (opp. to the better of the two) var mikils fjár verð, Str. 5; hón var eigi lakari en hundrað marka silfrs, Karl. 302.
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að, to lag behind.
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adj. of lacking, bad quality.
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að, to toddle, as a child beginning to walk.
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a, m. a toddler, of a child, Snót (1866) 386: of a ghost, Ísl. Þjóðs.
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að, to bruise, half break, freq. in mod. usage, eg lamaði það; það er lamað, half broken.
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f. a beating so as to injure one, a law term, Grág. ii. 144, 145.
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n. a broken state; liggja í lamasessi.
n. lamb.
n. [common to all Teut. languages], a lamb, Fms. viii. 253, Ld. 170, Hom. 82, Grág. i. 415, Stj. 279, Gullþ. 26, passim; lambið mitt! lambið gott! my dear lamb! lambkin! an address.
COMPDS: lambaflokkr, lambahús, lambarekstr, lambasótt, lambasúra, lambseldi, lambsgæra.
pp. with lamb, = lembdr.
part. with lamb, Bs. i. 334.
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m. a flock of lambs, Bret. 115.
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n. pl. lamb sheds, Fbr. 77, Bs. i. 627.
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m. the driving lambs into the mountain pastures, Am. 17.
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f., medic. atrophy; liggja í lús og lambasótt.
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u, f., botan. the dock, rumex.
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n. lamb-keeping, an eccl. term, referring to the rule that every householder in the parish has to keep a lamb for the priest through the winter, Dipl. v. 5, Vm. 74, 83.
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u, f. a sheep-skin, Grág. ii. 401, 500, 504, H. E. i. 131, K. Þ. K. 150.
m. lambing.
m. the bearing lambs, lambing, Jb. 362.
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n. = lambseldi, Vm. 75.
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f. a gimmer, a ewe that has not lambed, Grág. i. 502, Jb. 347.
m. pasture for lambs.
a, m. pasture for lambs, Ld. 70.
n. pl. lamb sheds.
n. pl. lamb sheds, Fbr. 78.
a. without a lamb.
adj. without a lamb, Grág. i. 429.
n. lamb’s skin (in ‘~s-kofri’).
n. a lamb’s skin, Sturl. ii. 154.
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u, f. a ewe which has lost her lamb, Jb. 346.
f. ewe with lamb.
f. a ewe with lamb, Band. 38 new Ed.
a. lame, maimed.
or lama, adj. [A. S. lam; Engl. lame; O. H. G. lâm; Germ. lahm]:—a lame person; liggja lami, Hom. 116; lama eðr vanheilir, Fms. ii. 225; skakkr eða lami, 656 B. 7: maimed, Grág. ii. 286: metaph. paralysed, Hom. 12: fót-lami, foot-lame.
f. thrashing.
f. a ‘lamming,’ thrashing, Mar.
m. lamp.
a, m. and lampr, m. [for. word], a lamp, Stj. 76, Bs., Sturl. iii. 55, and passim.
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m. = lampi, Pm. 6, 73.
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part. ‘lame,’ i. e. hard, of hearing, Th. 8.
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n. a beating storm.
n.
1) land, opp. to sea; lands eða lagar, on land or sea; taka l., to land; nema l., to take land as a settler;
2) the (opposite) bank (of a river, bay, fjord); inn með öðru landi ok öðru út, in along one side and out along the other;
3) country (verja landit fyrir Dönum); út í lönd, into foreign lands;
4) land, estate (í landi annars manns).
n. [common to all Teut. languages], land, as opp. to sea; lands eða lagar, on land or sea, Al. 107; taka land, to land, Ísl. ii. 246; leiða e-t at landi, metaph. to land a thing, i. e. end, finish it, Odd. 6: phrases, nema land, to take land as a settler, Eb. passim; kanna land, to explore, 8; byggja land, to occupy a land, Landn.; flyja land, to fly the land: of a kingdom, ráða löndum, to ride; sitja at löndum, to reside, as a king, Fms. passim; setjask at landi, to take rest, reside at home, as a king, i. 82.
2. the (opposite) bank of a river, bay, fjord; inn með öðru landi ok öðru út, to enter by one side and go out by the other, Fms. i. 167; nær hinu syðra landinn, Ld. 6; á bæði lönd, Gþl. 411; draga vað at hváru landi sem þeir vilja, Grág. ii. 349; sá menn ferðina af hvárutveggja landinu, Ld. 326.
3. a country; verja landit fyrir Dönum, Fms. i. 23; líðit rann ór þorpinu á landit, Eg. 529; hér í landi, opp. to abroad, Nj. 6: in plur., út í lönd, into foreign lands, Ld. 314; nokkurir menn höfðu kennt hann út í löndum, Fms. iii. …
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or -bálkr, m. a section of the law dealing with land, Grág. ii. 202, 344, 345.
n. redemption of land.
n. = landsbrigði, Grág. ii. 202.
f. land-owning.
f. land-owning, Hkr. ii. 206: mod. landar-eign (sic), the land, fields, and pasture belonging to an estate: í landareigninni, within the borders of an estate and the like.
m. discovery of new lands.
m. land-finding, discovery, Fb. i.
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m. ‘land-ring,’ poët. for the sea, Hallgr.
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n. land purchase, Grág. ii. 313: exchange of land, Bs. i. 725.
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a, m., see klofi, Sks. 194, 199.
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m. = landskostr, Eg. 139, 140, Fs. 25, 26, Valla L. 206.
f. exploration, voyage of discovery.
f. a journey to discover land, search for land, Landn. 76.
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f. = landaleit, Landn. 190, Fms. i. 247, Grág. ii. 410.
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a, m. beam of the earth, of the sun, Runic poem: a nickname, Bjarn.
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n. a landmark, Stj. 342: plur., Dipl. v. 23.
n. pl. boundaries (of an estate).
n. pl. a landmark, boundary, of an estate, Ld. 100, Eg. 235.
n. borderland, boundary.
n. border-land, Eg. 260, Nj. 123, Ó. H. 45, Karl. 382, Stj. 76, 88, 269 (plur.): a landmark, Ld. 102.
f. = landabrigði.
f. = landsbrigði, Sturl. ii. 236.
f. geography.
f. geography, Fms. i. 233, Sks. 194.
n.
1) division of land;
2) boundary;
3) exchange of land.
n. a division of land, Ver. 24, Stj. 44: a boundary, Fms. vii. 52: a change of land, Bs. i. 716.
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f. a ‘land-scroll,’ deed, D. N. iii. 929.
m. (one’s) countryman (landar várir); Icelander (= mör~).
a, m. a ‘landsman,’ countryman; ossa landa þá er vóru austr, Íb. 10; erlendis sem fyrir órum löndum, Grág. i. 99; vára landa fimm, 183; várr landi skal hverr friðheilagr, N. G. L. i. 158: = mörlandi, þeir sögðu at landi hefði eigi fast haldit feldinum, Ísl. ii. 39: a nickname, Bs. i.
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u, f.), the Book of Settlement, the famous historical work begun by Ari the historian, Landn. 24, Fs. 122.
f. the history of the settlement (of Iceland).
f. (commonly called
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u, f. the History of the Settlement, Landn. 275.
f. the time of the settlement.
(-tími, Vígl. 19), f. the time of the settlement (about A. D. 875–935), Landn. 133, Fb. i. 268.
f. female settler.
u, f. a female settler, Íb. 19.
m. settler (Ingólfr var frægastr allra landnámsmanna).
and landnáma-maðr, m. a settler, and in plur. the settlers, of the first generation of settlers in Iceland, Íngólfr var frægastr allra landnámsmanna, Landn. 38, 236, 320, 321, passim, Íb. ch. 1, 11.
m.
1) governor;
2) traitor.
m. a governor, Fms. vii. 280: a traitor, viii. 296, Gþl. 57.
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f. a case of high treason, Gþl. 121, 535.
m. landlouper.
m. a landlouper, Sturl. ii. 125, cp. Skíða R. 15.
f. depopulation of a land.
f. a laying waste, depopulation of a land, Fas. i. 526, Hkr. ii. 75.
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u, f. a region, Matth. xv. 21.
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f. the ‘land-book,’ code of laws, Jb, 43, 44.
f. = landabrigði.
f. escheatage of land, Grág. ii. 202, 203, Jb. 188.
m. destruction of the land by fire.
a, m. wildfire, Sæm. 95 (prose).
n. = landsbygð.
n. = landsbygð, Grág. i. 74, Bs. i. 718.
m.
1) inhabitant;
2) tenant.
a, m. a land dweller, inhabitant, plur. = landsmenn, Sturl. i. 45, Ó. H. 27: a tenant, Hkr. i. 90.
f.
1) the peopled land;
2) tenantry.
f. the peopled land, Gr. η οικουμένη, Lv. 16, Fms. x. 376: peopling, settlement, Landn. 311, v. l.: tenantry, Grág. i. 445.
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f. occupation of a land, Sks. 441.
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f. pl. land improvements, Fms. x. 152.
f. partition of land.
f. partition of land, Grág. ii. 253.
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a, m. a chief justice, of Pilate, Matth. xxvii. 11, Pass. 25. 1.
m. landlord.
m. a landlord, Grág. ii. 334, Gþl. 312.
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f. land-owning, Grág. ii. 268.
m. land’s end.
a, m. the land’s end, boundary, N. G. L. i. 102, Fms. i. 6, vii. 110, viii. 244, Hkr. ii. 162.
m. quarter of the land (of Iceland).
m. the quarter of a land (of Iceland), Grág. i. 433, Landn. 251, Bs. ii. 81.
m. exile, banishment.
adj. exiled, Fms. x. 403.
n. the people (inhabitants) of a land.
n. the land-folk, people of the land, Fms. i. 55, vii. 174, Gþl. 44.
m. public peace.
m. the peace of the land, public peace, Fms. vi. 284.
f. guarding or defence of the land.
u, f. the guarding the land, Eg. 536, Fms. vii. 69, ix. 398: landsgæzlu-maðr, Þiðr. 162.
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m. national custom, H. E. ii. 79.
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n. an index of local names, Edda 153.
m. = landsfólk.
m. = landsfólk, Fms. i. 132, 214, Fb. ii. 109.
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m. = landsdróttinn, Stj. 214.
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m. a portion of the land, Jb. 129.
n. the land’s end.
n. the land’s end, Landn. 194.
m. great chief of the land (hann barðist í mót landsingjum).
a, m. the ‘land-ruler,’ great chief of the land, Hkr. i. 261, Fms. xi. 266, Sks. 603, passim.
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a, m. ‘land-jaw,’ used = landshorn, Sturl. iii. 80.
m.
1) posession of land;
2) quality of the land.
m. the best of the land, Landn. 276, Edda (pref.): choice land, Landn. 312, Eg. 116, 137; see kostr.
n. nature (physical conditions) of a land.
n. the nature, ‘lie’ of a country, Fms. iii. 207.
n. nature (physical conditions) of a land.
n. = landslag, Landn. 174. Ld. 156, Fs. 22, 25, Fms. vii. 56, Rd. 276.
f. land rent.
u, f. land rent, Grág. ii. 334, Sturl. iii. 140; landsleigu-bálkr, the section of the law about tenancy, Grág. (pref.)
m. = landsfólk.
m. = landsfólk, Fms. vi. 400, x. 379, Stj.
n. pl. law of the land, public law.
n. pl. the law of the land, public law, Nj. 191, Grág. i. 181, Sks. 668.
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a, m. a right of redemption, Grág. ii. 240.
n. the main power of the land (as to strength or area).
n. the ‘main’ of the land, main power, regarding strength or area, Fms. iv. 119, vii. 183, Eg. 50; landsmegin hans (his kingdom) er oss fjarri, Ó. H. 85.
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m. pl. the men of the land, the people, Grág. i. 454, 463, Eg. 78, Nj. 137, Fms. i. 27, v. 67, Orkn. 136, passim.
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n. the ‘land’s mark,’ border, boundary, Grág. ii. 209.
m. the common people.
m. the people, esp. the common people, Ó. H. 34.
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f. pl. public affairs, wants, Sks. 496.
f. pl. produce of the land.
f. pl. the produce of the land, Ísl. ii. 118, Grág. ii. 210, D. I. i. 470.
m. landlouper.
a, m. a landlouper, Grág. i. 192.
m. the law of the land, public law.
m. the law of the land, public law, Eg. 476, Fms. vii. 295; lög ok landsréttr, Fs. 27, passim.
m. custom of the land.
m. the custom of the land; forn landssiðr, the old law of the land, Nj. 6, Bs. i. 284, 682; lýttr er sá er ekki fylgir landssiðnum, a saying.
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a, m. damage on the land, Hkr. i. 96.
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m. a ‘landscape,’ region, Bs. i. 877, Stj. 73, v. l.: = landssiðr, 172; sakir landskapar ok fornrar venju, Bs. i. 281, Str. 30.
m. land tax.
m. a land tax, Fms. x. 410.
f. = landssiðr.
f. = landssiðr, Grett. 97 A, Stj. 73.
n. division of land.
n. a division of land, Grág. ii. 255, 261.
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f. rent of land, Fms. i. 18, 90, Ó. H. 27, Orkn. passim,
f. = landskyld.
mod.
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u, f. ‘site of a country.’
f. = landstjórn.
f. government, Fms. i. 1, Sks. 329, Fb. ii. 172, passim; landsstjórnar-maðr, a public authority, officer, Fms. vi. 392, xi. 218, Jb. 51.
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m. = landsuðr, Grett. 136.
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f. = landsýn, Landn. 258.
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u, f. a tongue of land, Hom. 92.
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a, m. = landssiðr.
f. = landván.
f. a lookout for land, a naut. term, being near land, Fms. ii. 216.
f. = landssiðr.
u, f. = landssiðr.
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n. the price for land, Dipl. iii. 10.
f. taxation of land.
f. the taxation of land, Grág. i. 83.
f. right or permission to reside in a land.
f. an abode, residence in a land, also opp. to the being exiled, Fms. ii. 112.
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m. the section of Norse law treating of defence, N. G. L. ii. 199 sqq.
m. a man entrusted or charged with the defence of the country against invaders.
m. a man charged with the defence of the country against freebooters and foreign invasion, Eg. 265, 401, Fms. v. 89, vi. 295.
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and landvarnar-skip, n. a ship of war for the defence of the country, H. E. i. 419, N. G. L. iii. 83, Gþl. 79.
f. depopulation, devastation.
f. laying a land (country) waste, Íb. 4, Þiðr. 162: a desert, Sks. 323.
m. pl. ‘land-dues’, a tax which Icelanders had to pay to the king on their arrival in Norway; a land tax had also to be paid for license of traveling or trading abroad.
m. pl. [eyrir], ‘land-dues,’ a tax which esp. foreign ships or travellers had to pay to the king as the lord of the land, Ó. H. ch. 54, 239, Hkr. ii. 46; thus an Icelandic ship sailing between Norway and Iceland had to pay this tax to the king; the amount was fixed by a law of king St. Olave, Íb. ch. 1, cp. also the deed in D. I. i. 65, § 3, 8, 11, 12; gjalda landaura af knerri, Ó. H. 36 (Sighvat, in a verse); for Icel. it was abolished in the deed of the union with Norway, D. I. i. 620, § 5; this tax was probably the beginning of the custom dues of after times: a land tax had also to be paid to the king for license of travelling or trading abroad, landaura skal engi maðr gjalda þeirra sem í útgerðum eru, N. G. L. i. 59; reykmæla ok afráð ok landaura alla, 257; maðr hverr er til Íslands færi skyldi gjalda landaura, Ó. H. 227. landaura-gjald, n. the tax of landaurar, Fms. vii. 1, x. 410, H. E. i. 391.
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m. elf of the land, epithet of a king, Eg. (in a verse).
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m. the guardian god of the land, Eg. (in a verse).
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m. epithet of a king, Eg. (in a verse).
m. the ‘landward’ side.
a, m. the ‘landward’ side, Fms. viii. 417, Bs. i. 423.
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a, m. (land-bólari, D. N. i. 544), a tenant, D. N.
f. = landabrigði.
n. = landsbrigð, Js. 84.
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n. land slips, caused by the sea, rivers, or the like.
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m. = landgangr, of shoals of fish, Ísl. Þjóðs. passim.
m. = landsbúi.
a, m. = landsbúi, Grág. ii. 209, Fms. i. 24, iv. 8, Fær. 218.
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land-búnaðr, m. husbandry.
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u, f. = landeign, Hom.
m. land-owner.
a, m. a landowner, Grág. i. 181, 279, Glúm. 393.
f. estate.
f., mod. proncd. landar-eign, an estate, esp, the grounds, fields, and pastures, Krók. 39, Fs. 20; í örskots-helgi við landeign sína, Landn. 287; hann tók sér bústað á Borg, ok ætlaði þar landeign til, Eg. 735: þá er stefnu-staðr á þeim bæ sem í landeign er ómaga niðr skotið, Grág. i. 297; þar at eins var þá reyniviðr vaxinn í hans landeign, Sturl. i. 6; fara ór landeign konungs várs, N. G. L. i. 82.
f. lack of land.
u, f. lack of land, Ld. 122.
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f. a law term, if a stranger died in a place, and no lawful heir appeared for three years, the king of the land in which he died took the inheritance, N. G. L. i. 50.
f. ‘land-waster’ (the name of a standard).
u, f. land-waster, the name of a standard, Fms. vi, viii: = landauðn, iv. 126: mod. a tramp, scout.
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n. a land slip, Pm. 88.
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f. an epidemic, (mod.)
a. ‘land-fast’; verða ~, to reach the land, arrive.
adj. ‘land-fast,’ of a ship ashore, Nj. 10, Sturl. i. 224, Ver. 9, Bs. i. 526, Fb. ii. 386.
f. pl. shore-ropes, moorings.
f. pl. moorings, Grág. i. 216, Fms. ii. 126, viii. 288, N. G. L. i. 50, 437, Fb. i. 281, passim.
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f. public business, troubles, Bs. i. 84.
a. fled from the land; landflæmdr, pp. driven out of the land, exiled.
-flótta, adj. exiled, Lat. profugus, Grág. ii. 99, Fms. i. 151, x. 36, Orkn. 96, Fs. 202, Ver. 27, Stj. 488.
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part. driven off the land, exiled, Bret. 28, Flóv. 24.
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n. = landsfólk, Sighvat, Edda (pref.), Hom. 113.
a. eager to make the land (of sailors).
adj. eager to make the land, of sailors, Krók. 45.
f. landing, disembarking.
u, f. a landing, disembarking, Hkr. ii. 7, Fms. vi. 334.
m. running ashore (of shoals of fish).
m. a running ashore, of shoals of fish; ‘landgangr af fiski’ is used when there is a large catch of fish, K. Þ. K. 112.
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m. ‘land-fence,’ poët. the sea, Fms. vii. (in a verse).
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part. pasture-haunting, of cattle, Jb. 346.
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n. pl. the good of the land.
f. defence of the land.
u, f. defence of the land, Hkr. i. 93.
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n. pl. produce, emolument of the land, Ám. 2, Dipl. iii. 10.
adv. keeping along the shore (fara, sigla ~).
n. adj. standing along the shore, Fms. x. 347, Fas. i. 324: compar. landhallara, Fb. i. 351.
m.
1) people of the land;
2) land troops.
m. ‘land-host,’ people of the land, Ýt. 5, Hkr. i. 144, Fs. 16, Fms. iv. 180, Nj. 127; allr borgar-lýðr ok landherr, Jóhann. 24, Sighvat.
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a, m. (hlutr), a share of land, Jm. 25, Sd. 138.
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f. ‘land-cleansing,’ clearing the land of miscreants, Gþl. 135, 136, Fms. ix. 302; það var landhreinsun að honum, a saying when a bad man is dead and gone.
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f. an inland estate.
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m. a ‘land-prober;’ the name belongs to an old ceremony of taking land in possession as a settler, thus described, setti hann niðr staf nýbirktan er þeir kölluðu landkönnuð, Landn. 190.
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m. the land carles, common folk, Sighvat.
n. purchase of land.
n. the purchase of land, Grág. ii. 213, Sturl. ii. 12, Ld. 210.
2. in Norse, a fine to be paid to the king, by one exiled or banished, N. G. L. i. 154, 156.
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m. king of the land, Fas. i. 501.
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m. pl. the qualities, good things of the land, Eg. 99, 116, Fs.
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n. adj.; eiga landkvæmt, to have free admission into a country, N. G. L. i. 171.
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u, f. lying on land, not putting to sea, of fishermen.
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part. a tenant, Dipl. iii. 10.
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m. full possession, title of land, see lyritr, Grág. ii. 225.
m. pl. = landsmenn.
m. pl. = landsmenn, Fms. v. 27: the name of the people of a district in Icel. called Land, D. I. i. 580.
m. home-sickness, nostalgia; e-m leika landmunir, one feels homesick.
m., esp. in pl. longing for land, home-sickness, nostalgia: in the phrase, e-m leika landmunir, to feel homesick; féll honum þat vel í skap, lék landmunr mikill á at fara í Noreg ok taka þar við ríki sem frændr hans höfðu fyrr haft, Ó. H. 200; Auðunn kvaðsk vilja fylgja honum, ok léku honum landmunir, Bjarn. 16, (Ed. létu heim at landinu erroneously, see Ný Fél. xviii. 160); þá léku honum landmunir at sækja vestr til Eyja, Orkn. 136; þeir er þar höfðu átt eigur ok frændr ok vini, ok léku þeim landmunir til heimferðar, Ó. H. 194.
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f. geometry, (mod.)
n. taking possession of land as settler, settlement.
n. the taking land, a law term:
I. in Norse law, an unlawful holding of another man’s land, and hence a fine for trespassing on another man’s land; nú ef hann selr, þá er honum jörð úheimil, gjaldi landnámi hvárttveggja, N. G. L. i. 37; nú ef hann tekr einahverja þá hurð ok færir á brott, þá skal hann aptr færa ok leggja á landnám, ef hann hefir leyst frá, 38; en ef hann grefr upp, þá skal hann bæta landnámi, id.; engi skal annars hauka taka, nema landnámi vili fyrir bæta, ok færa hauka aptr, 39; ok leggi á landnám ok jarðar-spell, þeim er jörð á, Gþl. 311; ok leggi umboðsmaðr landnám ofan á, 313; um landnám ok áverka á jörðu, Jb. 232; um landnám ok skógar-högg, 234: distinction is made between the fine and the compensation, fulla skaða-bót skal greiða fyrir beit ok töðu akra ok engja landnáms-laust … en ella fullt landnám, 258, 259.
II. in Icel. the taking possession of land as a settler, occupation, particularly used of the settlement of Iceland: in Landn. and the Sagas passim it is used in sing. of the land allotted to each settler, í landnámi sínu, í hans landnámi, etc., almost like landeign, see Landn. passim; but often in plur. …
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adv. from the north-east.
n. north-east, opp. to útnorðr.
m. ‘land-north,’ north-east, opp. to út-norðr = the north-west, a phrase borrowed from the Scandin. continent (see landsuðr), Fs. 22, K. Þ. K. 138, Grág. ii. 283, Sks. 173, Bs. ii. 48, Bjarn. (in a verse).
m. north-east wind.
m. a north-east wind, Eg. 87, Fms. viii. 254, Eb. 252, 328, Bs. ii. 48, Sks. 41, Fb. i. 539, Merl. 2. 44, 84.
n. pl.
1) government of the land (hann var fyrir öllum ~um);
2) high treason.
n. pl. the ‘land-rule,’ government of the land; hann var fyrir öllum landráðum, Fms. i. 2; hann var forstjóri fyrir landráðum, vii. 238; en Eysteinn konungr skyldi hafa landráð af hendi beggja þeirra, 75; ek mun hafa landráð meðan, xi. 22; unna honum hálfs ríkis ok landráða við sjálfan sik, Odd. 115 new Ed.; ráða landráðum, Fms. vi. 431, Ó. H. 52.
2. ‘land-treason,’ high treason, (from ráða, to betray), N. G. L. i. 103, Fms. i. 58, viii. 196, Gþl. 57, 133.
COMPDS: landráðamaðr, landráðasök.
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part. a ruler of the land, Lex. Poët.
n. the harrying of a land.
n. the harrying a land, Fms. vi. 27.
m. poet. protector of the land, king.
a, m. a ‘land-wreaker,’ protector of the land, poët. a king, Hkv. 1. 32, Edda (Gl.), Lex. Poët.
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m. banishment, Eg. (in a verse).
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m. = landsréttr.
m. poet. prince, king.
m. = landáss, of a king, Akv. 12.
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u, f. sale of land, Landn. 317, Grág. ii. 214.
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m. a ‘land-seal,’ the common seal.
m. tenant.
a, m. a ‘land-sitter,’ tenant, Grág. i. 296, Eb. 314, Sturl. ii. 103, Orkn. 334, Gísl. 50, freq. in mod. usage.
n. general famine.
u, f. public famine (seyra = starvation); var en mesta lansöra (sic) er eigi skyldi vera kaupfriðr í milli, Ó. H. 51; ok ætla héðan at flytja smjör ok skreið, er mikil landseyra er at þeirri brottflutningu, Fms. viii. 251, v. l.
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m. = landssiðr, Vm. 71.
m. damage to the land.
a, m. = landsskaði, Fms. i. 193.
m. custom of the land (sakir landskapar ok fornrar venju).
m. = landsskapr, Stj.
m. outskirt of land.
m. a strip, outskirt of land, Bs. i. 739.
f.
1) government of a land;
2) = landaskipan.
f. = landsskipan, Fms. x. 148, xi. 409.
n. = landsskipti.
n. = landsskipti, Grág. ii. 255, Fms. ix. 243, xi. 362.
m. earthquake.
a, m. an earthquake, Edda 40 (the mythical origin of the earthquake), Sks. 142, Greg. 49, MS. 655 xxvii. 22 spelt land-skylpi.
f. rent of land.
f. = landsskyld, B. K. 40, Fb. ii. 247; landskyldar burðr, Fms. iv. 258; landskyldar skrá, a rent roll, Rétt. 56.
f. government.
f. = landsstjórn, Fms. vii. 326, Eb. 194.
n. south-east, opp. to útsuðr.
m. ‘land-south,’ south-east, opp. to út-suðr = south-west (see landnorðr), Nj. 263, Fms. ix. 502, Rb. 90, Stj. 83, 88, Fs. 186, Gullþ. 11, freq. in mod. usage.
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adv. blowing from the south-east.
m. south-east wind.
m. a south-east wind, Fms. ix. 387, Sks. 39.
f. sight of land; í ~, in sight of land; ór ~, out of sight of land.
f., naut. the sight of land; í landsýn, within sight of land, Karl. 554; ór landsýn, out of sight of land; sigla í haf ok ór landsýn, Fb. i. 542; vera ór landsýn, N. G. L. i. 103.
f. taking land, landing.
u, f. the taking land, landing, Korm. 228, Eb. 332, Nj. 267, Eg. 159, Fas. ii. 231: mod. also a landing-place, þar er góð, íll landtaka, etc.
n. land tent.
n. a land tent, originally a naut. term, a tent pitched ashore when in harbour, opp. to the tents on board, often in plur., Nj. 157, Hkr. i. 26, Stj. 45; landtjald Drottins, the Lord’s Tabernacle, Sks. 146, 780.
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n. a towing from shore, Snót 306.
a. acquainted with the country.
adj. acquainted with the country, Fas. iii. 87.
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u, f. a tax to be paid by fishermen to the landlord or the king as liegelord; hverr maðr er á haf réri, skyldi gjalda konungi landvörðu, hvaðan sem færi, en þat eru fimm fiskar, Ó. H. 227 (Fms. x. 399); at svá greiði skiparar allir …, svá at hvárki skaði tíundina, konungs-skreið né landvörður né leiðangrs-gerðir né nokkurar aðrar skyldir, N. G. L. ii. 475, Boldt 89, 143, cp. N. G. L. i. 257, § 2.
f. prospect of reaching land.
f. = landsván, Landn. 43 (v. l.), N. G. L. i. 346; ok er hann kom í landván við Noreg, Hkr. i. 292.
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n. a land wind, Landn. 225.
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adv. by land, Fr.
m. a way by land, opp. to ‘sjóvegr’; fara landveg, to travel by land.
m. a way by land, opp. to sjóvegr; fara landveg, Eg. 94, K. Þ. K. 24.
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adj. from the county Land, Fs.
n. land wind.
n. = landveðr, Fms. ix. 49, Landn. 225, Bs. i. 483.
a. n., eiga ~, to have residence in a country open to one.
n. adj.; eiga landvært, to have residence in the country open to one, opp. to the being outlawed or under ban, Bs. i. 675, Grág. i. 209, Glúm. 382, Fms. v. 265.
f. guardian spirit of a country.
f. the guardian spirits of a country, abiding in mountains, rivers, etc., in the shape of giants, fairies, animals, see the interesting story in Hkr. Ó. T. ch. 37, as also Landn. 258, (for the references see höfuð A. V); sný ek þessu níði á landvættir þær er land þetta byggja, Eg. 389; þat sá úfreskir menn, at landvættir allar fylgðu Hafrbirni til þings en þeim Þorsteini til veiða ok fiskjar, Landn. 271.
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m. a land-warder, poët. a king, Lex. Poët.
f. defence of the land.
f. the defence of the land, N. G. L. ii. 199 sqq.; Guthorm son sinn setti hann til landvarnar austr við landsenda, Fms. i. 6; skyldi Einarr jarl hafa forráð fyrir þeim ok landvörn, Orkn. 44, 160.
COMPDS: landvarnarbálkr, landvarnarmaðr, landvarnarsegl.
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n. a kind of parliament.
I)
(að), v. to long for; impers., mik ~r til e-s, I long for a thing.
II)
(gen. löngu), f. ling (fish).
u, f. [Scot. laing], ling, a fish, Fas. ii. 111, Edda (Gl.), freq. in mod. usage, löngu-bak, n. a nickname, Landn.
I)
(að), v. to long for; impers., mik ~r til e-s, I long for a thing.
II)
(gen. löngu), f. ling (fish).
að, to long for:
1. impers. ‘it longs me,’ I long for; mik langar ekki til þess, I long not for it, Fms. i. 284; er þá (acc.) langaði ekki til fundar hans, viii. 431; þess er ván at þik muni þangat langa, Fs. 104; þótti þeim nú Kolbeinn aptr kominn ok endrborinn er þá langaði æ eptir, Sturl. iii. 269; at Orkneyinga (but Orkneyingar, Fms. vii. 28, Orkn. 142, l. c.) mundi lítt langa til, at hann kæmi vestr þangat, Magn. 446: as also freq. in mod. usage, mig langar í e-ð, I long for a thing, of food; but langar til þess, of other things; mig langar til að fara.
2. personal; ok langaði til hennar burðar allir réttlátir, Hom. 130; allir hinir vitrustu menn lönguðu til hans fundar, Bs. i. 450, Orkn. 142; nú er sá dagr kominn er vér höfum allir (oss hefir alla, v. l.) langat til, Fms. viii. 220; sem þeir höfðu til langat, 655 xx. A. 1.
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n. long-bone, a nickname, Sturl.
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n. a ‘long-bower,’ a store-room, Dipl. iii. 4, v. 18.
f. the long-fast, Lent.
u, f. the long fast, Lenten fast, Grág. i. 245, 246, 291, K. Þ. K. 122, 124, Rb. 82, Stj.; langaföstu-ígangr, the beginning of Lent, Grág. i. 122.
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n. ‘Long-espée,’ Long-spear, a nickname, Fms.
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f. ‘long-prong,’ the middle finger.
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a, m. one of the stomachs in sheep or cattle.
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m. long-deacon, a nickname, Sturl.
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m. Good Friday, K. Þ. K., N. G. L. passim.
a.
1) long, of space and time (langt sverð, löng stund);
2) neut., langt, long, far, distant; þeir áttu eigi langt til eyjarinnar, they had no long distance to the island;
3) e-m er langt at e-m, one is interested in a person; hvat er yðr langt at þessum mönnum, what interest do you take in these men?;
4) long, wearisome (þér mun langt þykkja hér á heiðinni).
löng, langt, adj., compar. lengri, superl. lengstr, [common to all Teut. languages]:—long, of space and time; löng sverð, Fas. i. 379; af löngu skeggi, Skálda 181; lengri hina eptri fætr, Stj.; þóat sú sé lengri, N. G. L. i. 44; þeir lifa opt langan aldr er með orðum eru vegnir, a saying = Engl. words break no bones, Nj. 252; hann fékk eigi mælt tveim orðum lengra samfast, Hkr. ii. 138; Föstudagr inn langi, Long Friday, Good Friday, passim; langt líf, Hom. 12; mjök langa hríð, Nj. 94; þá er dagr er sem lengstr, þá er nótt er sem lengst, Landn. (pref.); vili þér þiggja lengra líf, Fms. vi. 166; sigr þinn mun eigi langr vera, xi. 23; höfum vér eigi heyrt þessa sögu lengri, we have not heard this story any farther, i. e. here ends the tale, Njarð. (fine); þat er löng saga at segja, ‘tis a long story to tell, Fms. xi. 99; seint er um langan veg at spyrja tíðenda, a saying, Edda 31; endi-langr, liggja endi-langr, to lie at full length; hón lagðisk sem hón var löng hjá honum, Karl. 47: long in prosody, Skálda 175, 179.
II. neut. long, far, distant; langt á milli fjalls ok fjöru, Landn. 57; ok áttu eigi langt til eyjarinnar, Fms. …
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adj. worn, weary, (conversational.)
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m. [from Fr. and Engl. lard], lard, fat: in the phrase, e-m sígr larðr (cp. e-m sígr kviðr), one’s stomach sinks, one is worn out, (vulgar.) In Hrafnagaldr 23 the sun is poët. called Fenris fóðr-larðr = the ‘wolf’s lard,’ the bait, the prey of the wolf, according to the tale in Edda of the wolf (Fenrir) running after the sun (Edda 7) and trying to swallow him. This poem however cannot be ancient, for this French word prob. came to Iceland through the English trade of the 15th century. The explanation given in Fél. x. 10 is erroneous.
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m., esp. in pl. larfar, rags, tatters.
a. weak, feeble, decrepit.
adj. dilapidated, half broken, Orkn. 528: medic. ailing; eg er lasinn, hálf lasinn, I am not quite well.
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að, to break asunder: reflex. to be half broken: part. laskaðr, bruised, and of wood with flaws.
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a, m. a flaw, fissure in wood.
II. the wrist-piece of a gauntlet beneath the thumb, (opp. to ló or lóð = the finger part); the phrase, á ló og laski! The foreman of a fishing-boat divides the catch of fish into two heaps, then throws a glove between these heaps, and turning his face away shouts, á ló og laski! whereupon each man of the crew has, in his turn, to choose either the ló or the laski, and take his share according to the side to which the laski or the ló points.
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að, to decay, become dilapidated.
n. blame, vituperation.
n. vituperation, Sighvat, freq. in mod. usage.
I) (að), v. to blame, speak ill of.
II) from löstr, fault.
að, [Germ. lästern], to blame, vituperate, speak ill of; löstuðu þat flestir, Eg. 196; mun sjálft lofa sik ef vel er, enda mun sjálft lasta sik ef ílla er, Nj. 176; Þorfinnr jarl kom þá at ok lastaði ekki verkit, Orkn. 114; lýta ok lasta, Stj. 135, Greg. 49; lasta Guð, to blaspheme, Fb. i. 287.
f. reproach, blame.
or löstun, f. slander, reproach, blame; lof eð löstun, MS. 677. 10, Ísl. ii. 450. lastanar-orð, n. pl. words of blemish, Fms. vi. 33.
a. reprehensible.
adj. (-liga, adv.), reprehensible, Mar.
I) (að), v. to blame, speak ill of.
II) from löstr, fault.
in compds, see löstr.
a. faulty, depraved (lastafullt líf).
adj. full of flaws, Skálda 188.
a. faultless, guileless.
adj. faultless, guileless, in a physical and moral sense, Stor. 3, Grág. i. 501; lastalauss hestr, Vm. 65.
a. vicious, evil.
adj. vicious, evil, 655 xi. 2, Hom.
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adj. full of evil, Hom. 24.
a. disparaging.
adj. slanderous, Germ. lästerlich, Rétt. 61.
n. pl. slander.
n. slander, Grág. ii. 148, Fms. viii. 252, Pass. 11. 15.
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n. = lastmæli, Fas. i. 107.
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adj. (-liga, adv.), reprehensible, Stj. 156.
a. slanderous.
adj. slanderous, Stj. 8.
adv. without guilt or sin.
adv. without guile or sin, Bs. i. 300.
a. guilt-less, virtuous.
adj. guileless, virtuous, Sks. 24, 687.
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adj. feeble, ailing.
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a, m. ailment.
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f. decrepitude, Mar.
(-mærr), a. weak, feeble, decrepit.
adj. mellow, decrepit, Band. 28 new Ed., Stj. 98.
(læt; let, létum; látinn), v.
1) to set, put, place (~ hest á stali);
~ e-n í myrkvastofu, to thrust in prison (dungeon);
~ e-t í ljós, to make it known;
~ e-t af e-u, to take off (vóru þá látnir fjötrar af Hallfreði);
2) to cede, give up (hann vildi eigi ~ þenna best);
~ hlut sinn, to let go one’s share, be worsted;
3) to leave, forsake (biðr hann, at þeir láti blótin);
hann ætlaði at ~ dróttningina eina, he intended to divorce the queen;
4) to lose (hann hafði látit flest allt lið ok herfang allt);
also with dat. (~ lífi, fjörvi);
5) with infin. to let, make, cause;
látit mik vita, let me know;
ek lét drepa Þóri, I made Th. to be killed;
~ sér fátt um finnast, to disapprove;
hann lét fallast (= sik falla), he let himself fall;
6) with pp., in circumlocutory phrases;
hann lét verða farit, he went;
hann lét hana verða tekna, he seized her;
ellipt., omitting the infin., ~ um mælt, to let be said, to declare;
hann lét harðan Hunding veginn, he slew the stark H.;
7) to behave, comport oneself (forvitni er mér á hversu þeir ~);
hann lét illa í svefni, he was restless in his sleep; …
að, to be slow, slacken, abate: impers., Helgi sækir at fast er hann finnr at Þorgrími latar, Fs. 138; þá er hann finnr at élinu latar, abates, (latrar Ed.), Fms. xi. 137.
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f. slackening:—metaph. dissuasion, Sturl. ii. 106.
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a, m. the late or lazy one, Edda (Gl.)
a. slow, lazy.
adj., fem. löt, neut. latt, compar. latari, superl. latastr; [Ulf. lats = οκνηρός, αργός; A. S. læt; Engl. late, lazy; O. H. G. laz; Germ. lass; Swed. lat; Dan. lad]:—slow, lazy, Sturl. ii. 155, Fms. xi. 256; latr ok ó-hlýðinn, 686 B. 2: so in the saying, latr sækir latan heim: with gen., latr e-s, Fms. xi. 256; ó-latr, diligent: passim and freq. in mod. usage, eg er latr, latr að læra, latr að vinna, etc.
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adj. slow of hand, Sturl. iii. 200.
adv. slowly, negligently.
adv. slowly, Fms. vi. 207, Krók. 42, MS. 686 B. 1.
n.
1) lather;
2) froth, foam of the sea (alda ~i faldin).
n., mod. löðr, but the diphthong is borne out by old rhymes as, lauðri, rauða, Fms. vi. 47 (in a verse); nauð, vii. 66; as also by the derivative leyðra, q. v.: [A. S. leaðor = a kind of nitre, used for soap; Engl. lather]:—the froth or foam of the sea water; lauðr var lagt í beði, Fms. vi. 180 (in a verse); ljótu lauðri dreif á lypting, id.; alda lauðri faldin, Orkn. (in a verse); viðr þolir nauð í lauðri, Fms. vii. (in a verse): lauðr Óðins elda, poët. = the blood, Gísl. (in a verse); haf-lauðr, sea-scum, Lex. Poët.; vápn-lauðr = blood.
II. in prose esp. of a kind of nitre or soap used in cleaning, e. g. the head; cp. Swed. lodder = a kind of soap, Engl. lather; ok þó hón höfuð hans, … ok hafði hón eigi þvegit lauðr ór höfði honum, Ísl. ii. 333 (Heiðarv. S.): líneik (the maid) strauk lauðri um skör mína, Vígl. 82 new Ed. (in a verse).
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að, mod. löðra, to foam, to be dripping wet with salt water: and esp. of blood, löðrandi af blóði, dripping with blood.
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or löðrungr, m. a box on the ear, prob. metaph. from washing and lathering the head; [cp. vulgar Engl. to lather = to beat.]
n. leaf, foliage.
n. [Ulf. laufs = φύλλον; A. S. and Engl. leaf; Germ. laub; Dan. löv; Swed. löf]:—a leaf, foliage, Hðm. 5, Fs. 135; aldin eða lauf, Gret. 14, Sks. 105; rjúpna-lauf:—metaph., lauf á hjálmi, El. 17, Sturl. iii. 140: in local names, Lauf-áss, whence Laufæsingar, the men from L.
COMPDS: laufadráttr, laufafettir, laufblað, laufgóðr, laufgrænn, laufgyltr, laufhús, laufsegl, laufsettr, laufskáli, laufskálahátíð, laufsteindr, laufviði.
m. embroidery representing leaves.
m. leaf-formed embroidery, Art.
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m. a name of a fox, Edda (Gl.)
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að, dep. to be leafy, Skálda 200: part. laufgaðr, leaved, Bær. 15, Barl. 149, Pass.: metaph., laufgaðr hjálmr, El.
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a, m. the name of the sword of the hero Böðvar Bjarki, Landn.
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n. a ‘leaf-blade,’ single leaf, Edda 29.
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adj. leafy, abundant in leaves, Barl. 149.
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adj. leaf-green, Rkv.; laufgrænn kyrtill, Hrafn. 13, El. 12.
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part. gilt-wreathed, MS. 4. 16.
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n. a ‘leaf-house,’ Hkr. iii. 180.
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adj. leafy, Sks. 627.
n.; sigla með ~i, to take things easy.
n. a leaf-shaped sail; in the phrase, sigla með laufsegli at e-m, to deal leniently with a person, Eb. 96, Fas. i. 7.
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part. ornamented with leaves, El.
m. arbour, bower.
a, m. a ‘leaf-house,’ summer-house, Konr., Fas. iii. 303, Karl. 78.
pp. leaf-dyed, = laufgrœnn.
part. leaf-dyed, = laufgrænn, Karl. 341.
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adj. leafy, Konr.
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n. leaf-wood (ash, elm, etc.), opp. to needle-wood (fir, pine), B. K. 55.
m. leafy wood.
m. leaf-wood, = laufviði, Merl.
I) (-ar, -ar), f.
1) bath;
2) hot spring (fyrir sunnan ána eru ~ar).
II) from ljúga.
f., old dat. laugu; with the article laugunni, Rd. 276, Thom. 484, but lauginni, Sturl. ii. 98, Fms. vii. 150; pl. laugar: [cp. Swed. lör; Dan. löver in lör-dag, löver-dag, = Icel. laugar-dagr, q. v.]:—a bath; hón varðveitti barn drottningar óborit meðan hón var í laugu, Landn. 110; taka laugar, Fs. 72; þar vóru laugar görvar, en er konungr var í lauginni var tjaldat yfir kerit, Fms. vii. 150; prestr er skyldr at vígja þrjár laugar um dag (of baptismal water), N. G. L. i. 347; laug skal göra hveim er liðinn er hendr þvá ok höfuð (of washing the dead), Sdm. 34 (Bugge); síðan vóru borð tekin, en Flosi tók laugar ok lið hans, Nj. 176, (hand-laug, mund-laug, q. v.): the bath in which a new-born infant is washed is called laug.
II. in Icel. a hot spring, which was used for bathing; en Föstudags-aptan fóru biskupar báðir til laugar í Laugar-ás eptir náttverð, Bs. i. 78; eitt hvert kveld er þeir fóru til laugar, … en laugin (the spring) var ekki á almanna-veg, 621; þat var eitt kveld er Snorri sat í laugu, at talat var um höfðingja, … Sturla Bárðarson hafði haldit vörð yfir lauginni ok leiddi hann Snorra heim, Sturl. ii. 98; fyrir sunnan ána eru laugar (hot springs) ok þar hjá jarðholur stórar, Eg. …
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(að), v. to bathe (kona ~ði barn sitt);
refl., ~st, to bathe, take a bath (~ðist konungr í ánni Jordan); to coat, overlay (skjöldr ~ðr í rauðu gulli).
að. [Swed. löga; cp. Lat. lavare], to bathe; þeir tóku kyrtil Joseph, lauguðu hann ok lituðu í kiðja-blóði, Stj. 194; hann laugaði öxina í blóðinu, Eb. 200; þvá hann ok lauga, Greg. 61; fór hann þá út til Jórdanar ok laugaði sik þar sem siðr er til pálmara, Hkr. iii. 67: a nurse’s term, to bathe a new-born infant, performed in olden times, and perhaps still, with some ceremony.
II. reflex. to bathe; laugaðisk konungr í ánni Jordan, Fms. vii. 87, 92; allr líkami Lausnarans laugaðist þá í blóði hans, Pass. 3. 9: metaph., laugaðr í leiri ok moldu, Karl. 409; silfri laugat, Fas. iii. 627; laugaðr í rauðu gulli, i. 172.
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n. a bath-house, Bs. ii. 22.
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n. a bathing-tub, MS. 451.
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f. ‘passion’ in a bath, of a bishop who died when in a bath, Bs. i. 78, (see the context of the passage.)
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n. bathing-water, Sól. 50.
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adj. ‘bath-weary,’ weary after having bathed, Thom. 484.
m. leek-garden.
m. a leek-garden, Ld. 260, N. G. L. i. 253, Mag. 171.
(-s, -ar), m. leek, garlic.
m. [A. S. leâc; Engl. leek; O. H. G. louh; Germ. lauch; Swed. lök; Dan. lög]:—a leek; hón hafði þar gört í steinkatli stappalauk (onion) ok önnur grös, ok gaf at éta enum sárum mönnum, þvíat kenndi af laukinum út ór sári því er á hol var, Ó. H. 223.
2. in old writers and in poetry esp. garlic (geir-laukr, q. v.), Fas. 176, 205, 246; þá var grund gróin grænum lauki, Vsp. 4; lítið kveða lauki gæft til auka, a saying, Sighvat, Lex. Poët., passim.
3. metaph. of sleek, taper-formed things; réttr sem laukr, straight as a leek, Játv. 4, Pr. 406 (lauk-jafn); blóð-laukr, a sword; ítr-laukr, q. v.; a mast is called the leek of a ship, Edda 91, Lex. Poët.; ættar-laukr, the ‘leek of a family,’ the best man of a family.
4. the oily skin of sea birds is called laukr, e. g. kofna-laukr, the skin of a young puffin.
COMPDS: laukagarðr, laukshöfuð.
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n. a leek-head, clove of garlic, Clar.
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adj. ‘leek-even,’ straight, just, metaph. from the plant, Sighvat.
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n. secret money: in the phrase, í laumi, by stealth.
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að, with dat. to put by stealth; eg laumaði því að honum: reflex. to sneak, go stealthily, eg laumaðisk að honum.
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n. pl. reward, recomnpense.
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f. secrecy, concealment; á (or með) laun, secretly.
1. f. [from ljúga, contr. from laugn; cp. Ulf. ga-laugns = κρυπτός, and laugni, f. = κρυπτόν; Dan.-Swed. lön, cp. Engl. lone, lonely; the word is therefore quite different from laun = reward]:—secrecy, concealment, biding; sögðu at þeir höfðu tekit fé til launar ok lygi, that they had taken money to conceal and forswear it, 656 C. 57; þá er morð … eða ef maðr hylr hræ til launar, Grág. i. 87; dul eða laun, Edda (Ht.) 127; nú heimtir annarr þeirra betr eða fleira fé en ván eigi, ok leggr laun á, Grág. i. 424.
2. esp. in the adverb. phrase, á laun, ‘alone,’ hidden; hann fór upp þangat ok var á laun, Nj. 57; þar var Kári nökkura stund á laun, 258; menn skyldi blóta á laun ef vildi, Bs. i. 25; mæla á laun, to speak secretly, Am. 3; hann sendi mann á laun, Al. 91; Geirmundr skipar jarðir sínar á laun … (leynt hefir hann þessu alla menn), Ld. 112; með laun, id.; hann for með laun, ok brá á sik gamals manns líki, Edda I.
COMPDS: launbarn, launblót, laundóttir, laundyrr, launfestar, launfesting, launfundr, laungetinn, launheitr, launkárr, launkoss, launmaðr, launmæli, launráð, launsát, launsátt, launsigr, launsonr, launstafir, launstefna, launstigr, launstuldr, launtal, launvágr, launvíg, launvígsmál, launþing. …
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(að), v. to reward.
að, to reward, with dat. of the person, acc. of the thing for which the reward is given, but dat. of the gift itself; þeir hafa yðr (dat.) þat (acc.) engu launat nema íllu, Fms. i. 84; íllum huga launaðir þú þá góðar gjafir, Hbl. 21; hví mundi hann oss (dat.) þat eigi góðu launa, Fb. ii. 38; íllu mun þér launat verða, Nj. 38; ok skal ek þat vel launa þér, Edda 23; þat þarf eigi at launa sem eigi er gört, a saying, Grett.; ú-launaðr, unrewarded; var-launaðr, scantily rewarded; eiga e-m varlaunat, to be indebted, be under an obligation to one, Karl. 198: to pay, fyrir penning hvern er smiðar skolu launa, N. G. L. i. 101; launa e-t af sér, to work out, pay in work done, Fr.
f. concealment, secrecy;
af (á, með) ~u, secretly.
f. concealment, secrecy; esp. in adverb. phrases, af (á, með) launungu, secretly, Nj. 103, v. l.; mjök á launungu, Fms. i. 66, viii. 368; með launungu, Bs. i. 622: in mod. usage singly, mér er engin launung á því, ‘tis no matter of secrecy for me.
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n. a case of launvíg, Lv. 109.
n. natural child.
n. a secret bairn, natural child, Grág. i. 237, 252.
n. secret worship of the gods.
n. secret (heathen) worship, Fms. ii. 162.
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f. a natural daughter.
f. pl. secret doorway.
n. pl. a secret doorway, Gullþ. 15, Fs. 84, Nj. 198, Orkn. 430, Fms. ii. 2.
f. pl. secret betrothal.
f. pl. a secret betrothal, H. E. i. 475.
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f. = launfestar, H. E. ii. 139.
m. secret meeting.
m. a secret meeting, Bret. 80.
pp. illegitimate, natural.
part. secretly begotten, illegitimate, natural, Nj. 30, Eg. 708, Grág. i. 170, Bs. i. 285.
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adj. treacherously hot.
a. dealing in secrets, mysterious.
adj. dealing in secrets, mysterious; vera úlaunkár at tíðendum, Bs. i. 621; in Bjarn. 24 (in the verse) read launkárr for launkrar, as is shewn by the sense as well as the rhyme.
m. secret kiss.
m. a secret kiss, Grág. i. 337.
m. a hidden (sham) person.
m. a hidden (sham) person, a dummy. Boll. 338.
n. pl. secret talk.
n. secret talk, Bs. ii. 229.
n. secret device.
n. a secret device, Edda 21.
f. ambush.
(mod. laun-sátr, n.), f. a ‘hidden seat,’ an ambush, Stj. 364, 365, 402, 619.
f. secret agreement.
or laun-sætt, f. a secret agreement, Bs. i. 871, H. E. i. 561.
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n. a victory won by fraud, Ýt.
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m. a secret son, natural son.
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m. hidden Runes, Eg. (in a verse).
f. = launfundr.
u, f. a secret meeting, Fms. ix. 34.
m. secret path.
m. a secret path, Hkr. iii. 133.
m. pilfering, theft.
m. pilfering, theft, Fms. ix. 272.
n. secret talk.
n. secret speaking, whispering, Fms. vii. 128, Gísl. 54.
m. hidden creek.
m. a hidden creek, Bjarn. 14, = leynivágr, q. v.
n. secret manslaughter.
n. a secret manslaughter, a law term, ranging between full murder and manslaughter, defined in Gísl. 22.
n. = launfundr, launstefna.
n. a secret meeting, Fms. viii. 327, Orkn. 268.
(-s, -ar), m.
1) basket, box;
2) the framework of a building.
m. [A. S. and Old Engl. leap; still used in Lancashire for a weel or fishing-basket]:—a box or basket, in Icel. of lattice-work, to carry on the back, also called meiss, q. v.; lauprinn er hann bar sveininn, Fms. x. 217, Vápn. 16, Vm. 98; selja salt í laupum, N. G. L. ii. 254: in Norway esp. of a measure of butter, Gþl. 491, 493, 524 (smjör-laupr), D. N. passim; kol-laupr, q. v.; ef munda þik hafa upp fætt í ull-laupi mínum (my wool basket) ef ek vissa at þú mundir einatt lifa, Orkn. 28.
2. metaph. the timber frame or scaffold of a building; þá er þeir höfðu reistan laup kirkjunnar, Fms. ii. 234; á öðru árinu var lauprinn reistr, sem voru allir innstöplar ok syllurnar tvær, Safn i. 66.
a. improvised wedding.
n. an improvised wedding, Eg. 24.
f. extemporized booth.
f. a shed, extemporised booth, Bs. ii. 107.
m. movable property, chattels.
m. [Dan. lösöre], = lausafé, Íb. 16, Eg. 131.
n. movable property, chattels.
n., gen. fjár, movable property, as opp. to lands or even to land and cattle, Nj. 29, Eg. 13, 67, 395, Fms. i. 25.
f. loose board.
f. a loose board, Þjal.
n. = lausafé.
n. = lausafé, Vm. 79, Pm. 4, Fms. xi. 441.
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n. a led horse, Jb. 278.
n. pl. loose conditions, void bargain.
n. pl. loose conditions, a void bargain; undir mál né lausakjör, no false or feigned bargain, Grág. i. 225; enda skolu engi lausakjör á vera, 268.
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a, m., gramm. a diphthong, Skálda 170.
n. pl. loose (outer) garments.
n. pl. the loose (upper) garments, Eg. 579.
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m. whoredom; eiga barn í lausaleik: lausaleiks-barn, n. a c hild begotten out of wedlock.
m. able-bodied labourer who has no fixed home.
m. a law term, a ‘loose-man,’ able-bodied labourer who has no fixed home, Jb. 350, (thus opp. to griðmaðr or maðr í vist); hann var lausamaðr, ok var vistum (had his temporary abode) á Stokkahlöðum, Sturl. ii. 67; bændr ok lausir menn, Fs. 23: hence a tramp, vagabond, strákar ok lausa-menn, Bs. i. 807.
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m. meat of various kinds; krof fimm ok enn lausamatr nokkurr, Dipl. v. 18.
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u, f. the state or life of a lausamaðr.
f. a trick with the hip in wrestling.
f. a trick with the hip in wrestling, Bárð. 183.
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m. loose money, cash, Dipl. i. 2.
m. loose snow.
m. loose snow, Eb. 236, Sturl. iii. 26.
f. loose (reserve) strap.
f. a loose strap to carry about one, Eg. 279.
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n. pl. a wrestler’s term, a loose grasp, opp. to close ‘back-spanning.’
m. loose logs, planks.
m. loose logs, planks, Bs. i. 392, Dipl. v. 18.
f. a single verse (not forming part of a poem).
u, f. a ditty, Edda (Ht.), freq. in mod. usage.
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n. a movable panelling, Gþl. 346.
(pl. -jar), m. = leysingi.
a, m. = leysingi, q. v.
(-ar, -ir), f.
1) release, liberation;
2) ransom;
3) absolution from ban or sin (hann tók ~ af sjálfum páfanum);
4) release from a duty;
5) decision, judgemnent (segja fram ~ir mála); eiga ~ á máli, to decide in a case.
f. release, liberation; hann lagði á hvern þeirra verk ok lausn, he put a work and ransom on each of his bondsmen, i. e. he gave them a chance of emancipating themselves by paying a fixed sum of money, Ó. H. 28: eccl. redemption, til hjálpar ok lausnar öllu mannkyni, Mar.; þat man okkr vera til engra lausna, Hom. 155; fyrir vára lausn þoldi hann písl., id.; áðr sú lausn kom er heitin var Abraham, 51, Stj., N. T., Pass., Vidal. passim; endr-lausn, q. v.:—right of redemption, B. K. 40:—absolution from sin or ban, Bs. i. 287, Fms. ix. 524; hann tók lausn af sjálfum pávanum, Nj. 281, K. Á. 38, 76, Bs. i. 710, passim; af-lausn, q. v.: release from a duty, Fms. x. 21.
II. decision, judgment; en er konungs son var búinn at segja fram lausnir mála, Sks. 643; þar var lausn ok band allra vanda-mála, Fb. ii. 71; eiga lausn á máli, to decide in a case, Bs. i. 708:—plur. lausnir, in þing-lausnir, q. v.
COMPDS: lausnargjald, lausnarmark, lausnarsteinn, lausnartíðindi.
m. the Redeemer.
a, m. a releaser, 656 B: eccl. the Redeemer, Stj. 27, Horn, 36, Barl. 30, Pass., Vidal. passim.
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n. a ransom.
n. badge of redemption.
n. a badge of redemption, Hom. 104.
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m. a stone with hidden power to loose the pains of labour, Maurer’s Volkssagen.
n. pl. loose news.
n. loose news, Sturl. ii. 96, iii. 256.
a.
1) loose, opp. to fastr, ‘bundinn’ (hon hafði laust hárit sem meyjum er títt); verða l., to get loose; eldr varð l., fire broke out; láta e-t laust, to let loose, yield up; liggja laust fyrir, to be easy to seize upon;
2) free, unimpeded, unencumbered (gakk þú l. yfir brúna); ríða l., to ride without baggage;
3) disengaged (free) from, with gen. (vit erum lausir allra svardaga);
4) void, riot binding (nú er laus veðjan okkar);
5) vacant (viljum vér gefa yðr Ólafskirkju, því at hón er nú laus);
6) light (l. svefn);
7) empty, without a cargo (sigla lausum skipum);
8) movable; lönd ok lausir aurar, lands and movable property;
9) absolved from ban;
10) in compds. mostly suffixed to a subst., often in gen., -less (mein-, sak-, vit-~, athuga-, auðnu-, lýta-~).
adj., compar. lausari, superl. lausastr; [Ulf. laus = κενός; A. S. leâs; Engl. loose, release; Germ. los; Dan. lös]:—loose, opp. to fast; fast ok laust; steinn, annarr fastr enn annarr lauss, Pm. 106; (fór) utanborðs seglit ok allt þat er laust var á búlkanum nema menn, Bs. i. 422; verða lauss, to get loose; eldr varð lauss, fire broke loose (cp. Dan. ildlös), Fms. x. 29; láta laust, to let loose, let slip, yield up, vi. 203, Nj. 58, Stj. 184; liggja laust fyrir, to sit loose, be easy to seize upon; þótti eigi svá laust fyrir liggja sem þeir ætluðu, Fms. viii. 357.
II. metaph. free, unimpeded, Germ. ledig; þar var engi maðr lauss at söðla hest konungs, Ó. H. 15; bændr ok lausir menn, Fs. 23; þessa megin skaltú láta hest þinn, ok gakk þú lauss yfir brúna, leave thy horse behind, and walk loose (i. e. unencumbered) across the bridge, Konr.; skal þat lið á móti því er laust er ok eigi er í fylkingu, Eg. 293: ríða laust, to ride (travel) unencumbered, without luggage, Hrafn. 27; lauss hestr, a led horse, Fms. v. 285.
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1) ‘leasing’, lying, falsehood;
2) loose life, life of a libertine.
f. [A. S. leasung; Old Engl. leasing; North. E. leesum]:— lying, falsehood; gjalda lausung við lygi, Hm.; lausung fyrir staðfesti, Al. 23, Fbr. 74; með lausung, at large; á þeima degi sem þú gengr út … með lausung, Stj. 557. 1 Kings ii. 42; þeir stela nauti, en gefa lausungina Guðs nafni, they steal the ox, but give the offal to the name of God, Prov. xx. 25 in a note to the Bible of 1644; cp. ‘to steal a pound and give a penny.’
II. loose living, life of a libertine, Mar., Hom., Fms. xi. 423, passim in old and mod. usage.
COMPDS: lausungarkona, lausungarmaðr, lausungarorð.
f. loose woman.
u, f. a loose woman, harlot, Mar.
m. libertine.
m. a losel, libertine, Mar.
n. deceit.
n. deceit, Jb. 385.
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adj. unbridled, unhampered, let loose.
a. with unsteady eyes.
adj. with unsteady eyes, Fb. i. 540.
a. fickle-minded.
adj. = lausgeðr, Ísl. ii. 418.
a. fickle-minded.
adj. fickle-minded, Róm. 266.
a. with loose pebbles.
adj. with loose pebbles. Glúm. 394.
pp. loose-girthed, without a belt.
adj. loose-girthed, of a horse, belt, Gþl. 540: without a belt, without money, Ísl. ii. 52.
a. with loose (flowing) hair.
adj. with loose hairs, Edda 21.
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adj. loose-headed, false, Róm. 161.
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a, m. looseness, a loose life, Mar.
adv. loosely.
adv. loosely, Orkn. 430.
a. loose, unsteady.
adj. loose, unsteady, Sturl. iii. 200, 215.
n. looseness of mind, fickleness.
n., fem. in Fas. ii. 124; looseness of mind, fickleness, Fas. ii. 134, Sks. 776.
n. = lauslyndi.
n. = lauslyndi, Vígl. 26: mod. looseness, uncbastity.
a. loose or unreliable of speech.
adj. loose of speech, Glúm. 372, Fms. vi. 108.
f. looseness of speech.
f. loose speech, Glúm. 372.
n. pl. breach of word.
n. pl.; the sing. occurs in Fb. iii. 185; breach of word, Fms. x. 50, Hkr. ii. 122.
a. = lausmáll.
adj. = lausyrðr, Sks. 773, Karl. 439.
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adj. easily taken, Band. 28 new Ed.
n. and f. loose (unreliable) talk (~ ok lygi).
n.; fem. in Pr. 133, Fbr. 64 new Ed.; breach of one’s word, Fms. vii. 151, Sks. 776, Fbr. 64.
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adj. unreal in one’s words, Sks. 773.
I) f. hollow place.
II) from lúta.
f. [lúta; early Swed. löt = pasture, Schlyter], a hollow place, Grett. (in a verse), Lex. Poët.: the word is freq. in mod. usage, but seems not to be recorded in old prose; this word occurs in Landn. 197 (Hjaltdæla-laut).
(pl. laxar), m. salmon.
m. [Scot. lax; O. H. G. lahs; Germ. lachs; Dan. laks; Swed. lax]:—a salmon, Edda 40, 72, Nj. 69, Fs. 35, 164, Fb. i. 539, passim: the male lax is called hæingr (contr. hængr), cp. goð-lax, q. v. In Lent it was forbidden even to mention meat by name, and hence at that season people called it jestingly klauf-lax, ‘cloven-hoofed salmon,’ see the story told in Maurer’s Volks. 207, 208.
II. freq. in Icel. local names, Lax-á, f. = Laxwater, Salmon water, a name of many rivers; whence Laxár-dalr, m. Laxwaler dale, and Lax-dælir, m. pl. the men from L.: Laxdæla-Saga, u, f. the Saga of L., Eb. 334, Grett. 15 new Ed., Fms. ii. 257.
COMPDS: laxafiski, laxakast.
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n. salmon-fishing, Boldt.
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laxa-verpi, n. a salmon casting-net, Boldt.
f. salmon river.
f. a salmon river, Gþl. 419; see lax.
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m. a kind of salmon.
f. shoals of salmon entering rivers.
u, f. shoals of salmon entering rivers, Bs. i. 595.
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u, f. a salmon cast, Boldt.
f. salmon-fishing.
f. salmon-fishing, Eg. 136, Ld. 14, Bs. ii. 140, 141.
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n. a salmon-cast, B. K. 29.
n. lace (for. word).
and latz, n. [for. word, from Fr. lace, Germ. latz, Lat. laqueus]:—a lace; kyrtla ok latz at síðu, kirtles laced on the sides. Eg. 602: drag-kyrtla latz, Fms. vi. 440.
(að), v. to adorn with lace.
að, to lace; laza klæði sín, Str. 81.
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f. lacing; lazan klæða sinna, Str. 82.
I)
(pl. lár), f. the line of shoal water along the shore.
II)
f. (?) blood, (?) warmth.
III)
from liggja.
1. f., pl. lár, the line of shoal water along the shore, edged by the surf; þekti hann at tré flaut í lánni, Mar.; hann hleypr út í lárnar ok bregðr í fiskinn öðrum enda á snærinu, Finnb. 220; líki Pompeius köstuðu þeir á sjá út, ok reiddi þat í lánni, Róm. 232: still in mod. usage:—poët. the sea generally, Lex. Poët.; odd-lá = blood, Höfuðl.; járn-lá.
II. = læ, craft, a απ. λεγ. in Vsp.
III. hair, Lat. lanugo, cp. lóð; hár heitir lá, Edda 109.
2. pres. lái, pret. láði, part. láð; [Ulf. laian = λοιδορειν, John ix. 28, and used strong; A. S. lean; Hel. and O. H. G. lahan]:—to blame; la e-m e-t, eg lái þér það ekki, I do not blame thee for it; or, það er ekki láandi (gerund.), it is excusable. It is curious that no instance is on record from old writers, although the word must be old.
n. poet. land.
n. [prob. akin to lán, Germ. lehn (ð = n), prop. denoting a fief]:—land, but mostly only in poetry: in the allit. phrase, land ok láð, land and lea, Hkm. 21; fyrirgöra landi ok láði, Fms. xi. 363; láð og lög, land and sea; láðs og lagar dýr, an amphibious animal; hann kom fram á eitt fágrt láð, Karl. 71: freq. in poetry, see Lex. Poët.: as also in poët. compds, esp. as láð-gefandi, part. fief-giving: láð-göfgaðr, part. gifted with lands: láð-valdr, m. a fief-wielder = a king; láð-varðaðr and láð-vörðr, m. a land-warder, all epithets of a king, Lex. Poët.
m. loadsmnan, pilot.
m. [an A. S. word, as the root vowel á = ei shews]:—a loadsman, pilot, guide; Keisarinn sendi konungi herlið mikit ok láðmenn af sínu ríki, Fms. xi. 313, v. l. (cp. the verse), Fas. ii. 304 (in a verse).
m. threshing-floor, barn floor.
a, m. a thrashing floor, barn floor, Stj. 397, 620, Gpl. 346; láfa fili, a barn floor, N. G. L. i. 38; láfa garðr, a barn, Stj. 392, 397.
m. threshing-floor, barn floor.
a, m. a pet name = Óláfr, Gramm. p. xxxv.
n.
1) stratum, layer;
2) due place, right position;
leggja stýri í ~, to ship the rudder;
ganga ór ~i, to go wrong;
fóru nú brýnn hans í ~, his brows became smooth and straight;
koma ~i á e-t, to put to rights, get a thing into order;
komast vel í ~, to fall into good order;
3) companionship, fellowship;
leggja (binda) saman ~ sitt, to enter into fellowship;
4) living together (hann réðst til ~s við Beru);
5) cohabitation;
eiga ~ við konu, to cohabit;
6) market price, tax;
leggja ~ á varning manna, to set or regulate the market price;
7) thrust, stab (with a knife, sword, or spear);
8) air, tune;
9) adverbial phrases:
í tvennu ~i, in two parts, double;
í öllu ~i, in every respect, quite;
í sumu (mörgu) ~i, in same (many) respects;
with compar. or superl., denoting degree;
í meira ~i, considerably, rather;
í fyrra ~i, rather early, among the earliest;
í verra ~i, among the worst;
í hljóðara ~i, rather silent;
í nærra ~i, rather close;
þann dag svaf Unnr í lengra ~i, U. slept that day longer than she was wont;
Helias var í fyrsta ~i spámanna, H. …
f., ĺg in Edda 68, 85; [Swed. låga; Ivar Aasen log; Engl. log]:—a felled tree, log; ĺg heitir ok tré þat er fellr í skógi, Edda 85; ĺg, þat er tré, 68; vóru þar fen stór ok höggnar á lágir, Eg. 577; sátu þeir allir samt á einni lág, Fms. i. 179, xi. 64, 332; þá spurði Hávarðr, hverr fell af láginni? Hkr. i. 241; ok því næst koma þeir at lág nokkurri er liggr um þvera götuna, Fb. iii. 376: the word is now obsolete in Icel. or is only used in the sense of
II. pl. lágar, a deep, hollow place; lág and laut are synonymous: the phrase, láta e-ð liggja í láginni, to let a thing lie in the hole, i. e. hide, conceal it.
m. the ‘low chant’ (in the Roman Catholic Mass).
m. the ‘low-chant’ in the Roman Catholic mass when the host was elevated, Bs., Hom., H. E. passim; lágasöngva bók, kver, skrá, the book (scroll) containing the low-chants, Vm., Ám., Pm.
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að, to become high, of meat: part. lágnaðr, of meat, fish.
(lægri, lægstr), a.
1) low, low down (þá er sól er lág um kveldit); bera lágt höfuðit, to carry the head low, be discomfited; fara lægra, to be lowered, humbled;
2) short (höggspjót á lágu skafti), short of stature (lágr sem dvergr ok digr);
3) low, humble (lágr at burðum); bera lægra hlut, to get the worst of it, be worsted;
4) low, of the voice (hann svarar ok heldr lágt).
adj., compar. lægri, superl. lægstr; [Dan. lav; Swed. låg; not found in A. S., so that probably the Engl. low is borrowed from the Scandin. word]:—low; lát hæl þinn síga nokkut svá lægra en tær, Sks. 372; at nú sé lægra í horninu en áðr, Edda 32; en lægstr Magnúss kross, Hkr. iii. 221; þá er sólin er lág um kveldit, when the sun is low on the horizon, Þiðr. 338: short, þat er mitt ráð, at þú trúir aldri lágum manni ok rauðskeggjuðum, Fms. xi. 428; öxi mikla ok lágt skaptið, Sturl. i. 64; Þórðr enn lági, Ó. H. 139:—low, low-lying, of land, þegar regn koma þá er úvært at búa þar sem lágt liggr, Fms. vi. 136:—low, of the voice; hann svarar ok heldr lágt, i. 159; konungr tók kveðju hans lágt, Sturl. iii. 305; biðja fyrir sér lágt, Hom. (St.)
II. phrases, bera lágt höfuð, to carry one’s head low, hang the head, be discomfited, Nj. 94; stefna þá at Birkibeinum ok standa nú engum mun lægra en þeir, are no worse off than they, Fms. ix. 44; en hina lægri daga (the lower holy days) þrim aurum, K. Á. 170; munda ek þat vilja áðr þessu þingi er lokit, at ér færit lægra, I would like to see ye lowered, humbled, Nj. …
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m. lowliness, humility, Mar.
n. low land, flat land.
n. low land, flat land, Stj. 591.
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adj. low-lying, flat, of a county.
adv. lowly, gently.
adv. lowly, Stj. 601; secretly, Fms. x. 425, 437.
a. low in stature.
adj. low, Fas. i. 43.
pp. low-spoken, low-voiced.
part. low spoken, with a low voice, Fms. i. 159, Ver. 30.
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n. ‘low-night,’ the depth of night, midnight, opp. to high day (hádegi).
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part. = lágraustaðr.
a. low-voiced.
part. low-voiced, Bárð. 176.
pp. with a short handle.
adj. with a short handle, of an axe, Fms. ii. 71, 100.
pp. speaking in a low voice.
adj. speaking in a low voice, Fb. i. 336.
pp. short of stature.
part. low-grown, short of stature, Fas. iii. 307.
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a, m., contr. for Þorlákr, Gramm. p. xxxv.
m. hand, paw.
m. [Gael. lamb], a paw, of the hand, Edda 110.
n.
1) loan; at láni, as a loan; hafa at láni, to get on credit;
2) fief; hafa at láni = hafa at léni.
n., but an older feminine is indicated by the compd lánar-dróttinn; [A. S. læn; Engl. loan; Dan. laan]:—a loan; in the saying, ekki er lán lengr en léð er; þiggja lán, to receive as a loan, Grág. i, 437; at láni, as a loan, Fms. ix. 404; hafa at láni, to get on credit, Nj. 259; selja at láni, to lend, Grág. i. 400; ekki er lán lengr en léð er, Vídal., a saying.
2. with the notion of land, a fief; en ef þú vilt þráliga halda á ríkinu, þá mun þér hinn til at fara á fund hans ok görask hans maðr, munu vér þá biðja með þér, at hann fái þér at láni þetta ríki, Ó. H. 45; á því láni, Sighvat, cp. láð; Guðs lán, a loan from God, Hom. 149.
3. metaph. luck, good luck; ó-lán, ill-luck, freq. in mod. usage.
COMPDS: lánsfé, lánshestr, lánshross, lánsklæði, lánsmaðr.
(að), v. to lend (þetta er lánsfé, er ymsir menn hafa lánat mér).
að, to lend; þetta er lánsfé er ymsir menn hafa lánat mér, Fms. iv. 328; en þeim lánaði hón klæði er eigi áttu sjálfir, Hkr. ii. 31; ok vildir þú fást í því sem þér er ekki lánat, at yrkja lof um mik, Fb. i. 245.
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m., prop. a liege-lord, whence generally a lord, master, esp. of the king or lord of a district; heit er lánardróttins ást, a saying, Fs. 111; þó ræð ek þér annat heilræði, at þú svík aldri lánardróttinn þinn, Nj. 129; hefir þú skammliga svikit þinn lánardróttinn, þóat hann væri eigi góðr, Grett. 184 new Ed.; hann beið svá ens æðsta meistara ok lánardróttins, MS. 625. 63; hann þótti vel hafa fylgt sínum lánardróttni, Fms. vii. 223: a master, betra þykki mér at látask í þínu húsi en skipta urn lánardróttna, Nj. 57.
n. = lánfé.
n. lent money, Fms. iv. 328, Ó. H. 149, N. G. L. i. 22.
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m. a borrowed horse.
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n. a borrowed horse, Grág. i. 433.
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n. pl. borrowed clothes, Al. 85.
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m. a lucky man; ó-lánsmaðr, an ill-fated man.
n. lent (borrowed) money.
n. = lánsfé, N. G, L. i. 22.
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m. a box to keep wool in, freq. in mod. usage.
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m. [for. word], a laurel.
(pl. lásar), m. lock;
hurðin var í lási, the door was locked.
m. [Dan.-Swed. lås; Engl. latch, borrowed from the Scandin.(?)], a latch, lock; lukla at lúka lásum upp, Grág. ii. 195; sýngr í lási, … var þá skemman í lási (locked), Fms. iii. 67; vera láss ok lykill fyrir e-u, viii. 235; í lásum eða lokum, N. G. L. i. 84; hann flökti þá um alla lása, Fb. i. 276; borg vár hefir langan tíma verit svá sem láss fyrir yðru ríki, Fms. i. 156; þar vóru á úti-dyrr, ok sterkr láss fyrir, Grett. 44 new Ed.; reka lás fyrir kistu, 198 new Ed.; stökkr þá láss af limum, Gg. 10; hve hón er í lás um lokin, Gm. 22.
m. crossbow.
a, m. a ‘latch-bow,’ cross-bow, Fms. viii. 285, Sks. 390, Karl. 349, Art. 63.
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adj. unlocked, latchless, Fms. xi. 226.
f. crossbow bolt.
f. a cross-bow shaft, Sturl. i. 180.
n.
1) loss (þeir sögðu konungi ~ sitt);
2) death, decease (ek segi þér ~ Eyvindar bróður þíns);
3) in pl. manners; skipta litum ok ~um, to change colour and manners.
n., like the Engl. subst. let, scarcely used except in compds; út-lát, an outlet; í-lat, an inlet, a bag; blóð-lát, blood-letting.
II. a loss; þeir sögðu konungi lát sitt, ok kölluðusk eltir hafa verit, Fms. xi. 370:—death, decease, ek segi þér lát Eyvindar bróður þíns, Nj. 4; lát hins helga Knúts konungs, Bs. i. 71; litlu síðar var mér sögð brenna hans ok lát, Fms. ii. 18; hann frá lát sonar síns, Gullþ., passim; manna-lát, loss of life; and-lát, líf-lát, q. v.; af-lát, killing.
III. in pl. manners; allit., litr ok lát; skipta litum ok látum, to change shape and manners, Skv. 1. 38: esp. of bad manners, howling, uproar, hón var svá mjök blótin at menn máttu eigi standask lát hennar, Fas. i. 254; skrípa-lát, scurrility, Fms. viii. (in a verse), see læti; en aldrei veit ek hvat látum var, vii. 202; í sínum látum sumum, Skálda 170; gera spott at látum yðrum, Nj. 124; hann bað menn ekki syrgja né láta öðrum herfilegum látum, 197. láta-læti, n. pl. dissimulation.
(læt; let, létum; látinn), v.
1) to set, put, place (~ hest á stali);
~ e-n í myrkvastofu, to thrust in prison (dungeon);
~ e-t í ljós, to make it known;
~ e-t af e-u, to take off (vóru þá látnir fjötrar af Hallfreði);
2) to cede, give up (hann vildi eigi ~ þenna best);
~ hlut sinn, to let go one’s share, be worsted;
3) to leave, forsake (biðr hann, at þeir láti blótin);
hann ætlaði at ~ dróttningina eina, he intended to divorce the queen;
4) to lose (hann hafði látit flest allt lið ok herfang allt);
also with dat. (~ lífi, fjörvi);
5) with infin. to let, make, cause;
látit mik vita, let me know;
ek lét drepa Þóri, I made Th. to be killed;
~ sér fátt um finnast, to disapprove;
hann lét fallast (= sik falla), he let himself fall;
6) with pp., in circumlocutory phrases;
hann lét verða farit, he went;
hann lét hana verða tekna, he seized her;
ellipt., omitting the infin., ~ um mælt, to let be said, to declare;
hann lét harðan Hunding veginn, he slew the stark H.;
7) to behave, comport oneself (forvitni er mér á hversu þeir ~);
hann lét illa í svefni, he was restless in his sleep; …
pres. læt, læt’k, Edda (in a verse), pl. látum; pret. lét, 2nd pers. lézt (rhyming with hristir in Edda in a verse); subj. léti; imperat. lát, láttú; part. látinn: middle forms, pres. látumk, Am. 89; pret. létumk, Hm. 106, Eb. (in a verse), Eg. 103 (in a verse): with neg. suff., pres. lækk-að ek, I let not, Ó. H. 171 (in a verse); pret. lét-a, Skv. 3. 42; imperat. lát-attu or lát-aþu, Sdm. 28, Líkn. 6: [Ulf. lêtan = ἀφιέναι; A. S. lætan; Old Engl. laten; Engl. let; O. H. G. lazan; Germ. lassen; Swed. låta; Dan. lade.]
A. To let, put, place; bauð hann at láta þá í myrkva-stofu, MS. 623. 30; var Haraldr þar inn látinn (shut in), Hkr. iii. 69; láta naut inn, to let ‘neat’ in a stall, let them in, Gísl. 20; láta út, to let out, Fms. vi. 215.
II. to let, suffer, grant; vil ek þess biðja yðr, herra, at þér létið oss mörk yðra, Ld. 112; konungr let margar tóptir til garða þar á árbakkanum, Fms. ii. 27; láta laust, to let go, let loose, Nj. 70, Fms. i. 168; hann vildi eigi láta þenna hest, viii. 123; láta hlut sinn, to let go one’s share, be worsted, i. …
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a. mannered (~ vel).
part. mannered; vel látaðr, Stj. 588, Fms. viii. 447, Karl. 446.
pp.
1) deceased, dead;
2) vel ~, highly esteemed, in good repute;
3) ~ við e-u, ready;
vel fyrir ~, well prepared.
part. deceased; see láta C. II. I.
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u, f. Latin, K. Þ. K. 74, Sks. 23; Látínu-bók, -bréf, -skrá, -söngr, a Latin book, deed, scroll, canticle, Fms. x. 147, Bs. i. 869, Pm. 86, Ám. 73; Látínu dikt, Latin composition, Fms. iii. 163; Látínu stafr, stafrof, Latin letters, alphabet, Skálda 170, 177; Látínu-list, Bs. i. 235; Látínu lærðr, a Latin scholar, Grág. (Kb.) i. 22; Látínu-mál, -tunga, the Latin tongue, Skálda 181, Ver. 37, Hom. 139, K. Þ. K. 74, 76; Látínu klerkr, a Latin clerk, scholar, Skálda 179; Látínu maðr, a Latin, Roman; Látínu skáldskapr, Latin poetry, 1 78; Látínu snillingr, a master in Latin, 181.
a. -mannered, minded (fálátr, lítillátr, marglátr, mikillátr).
adj. mannered: a suffix in compds denoting manners or qualifies, see Gramm. p. xxxiv.
a. -mannered, minded (fálátr, lítillátr, marglátr, mikillátr).
m., in old poetry and better láttr, [from lag, as sláttr from slag, Engl. litter]:—the place where animals, esp. seals, whales, lay their young, Gpl. 465: in poetry, Fáfnis láttr, the serpent’s litter = gold: freq. in mod. usage, as also in local names, Látr (pl. Hval-látr), Látra-bjarg, -heiðr, see the map of Iceland.
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að, dep. to litter, of seals, beasts, Fas. ii. 284, where used metaph.
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m., Karl. 267; [Fr. laiton; Engl. latoun or latten]:—brass; af enum bezta látuni, Vm. 41, 177, Am. 18; but neut. in mod. usage.
n. bearing, manners, deportment.
n. bearing, manners, deportment, Ld. 272, Bs. ii. 78.
well-mannered, courteous.
adj. courteous, well-mannered, Fms. x. 152.
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n. manners, Sks. 282 B, Bs. i. 76.
a. of gentle bearing.
adj. of gentle bearing, Edda 21.
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n. bearing, deportment, manners, Sks. 282, 370.
(-s, -ar), m. lord, master.
m. [like lafði, borrowed from the Early Engl. lâuerd, as it was spelt and sounded in Engl. of the 12th century; A. S. hláford]:—a lord, master, Fms. vii. 250, x. 226, Hom. 89, Mar. passim: the word is used in the N. T. along with drottinn and herra.
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u, f. a smooth, dead sea.
m. the surf (cf. lá).
m. a ‘fence of lá,’ the surf; þá sá þau at sylgja lá á steini í lágörðunum, Bs. i. 317; kom þar um síðir at hann þreyttisk á sundi, var hann þá kominn í lágarða, dró hann þá niðr, í því sá hann hvar kerling ein stór óð út at honum, Fas. ii. 435.
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n. Laaland, a Danish island, Fms. xi.
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u, f. a lead, plumb, a fisher’s term in western Iceland.
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u, f. mud, oose, slab.
n. skin, leather.
n. [A. S. leðer; Engl. leather; North. E. ledder; Germ. leder; Dan. læder]:—leather, freq. in mod. usage, but no instance in old writers is recorded.
COMPDS: leðrblaka, leðrflaska, leðrháls, leðrhosa, leðrhús, leðrpanzari.
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að, to line with leather, N. G. L. iii, Nos. 2, 10.
f. bat.
u, f. [Swed. läder-lapp], a ‘leather flapper,’ a bat, Al. 168, Edda (Gl.)
f. leather bottle.
u, f. a leather bottle, Grett. 88.
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m. a nickname, Landn.
f. leather hose.
u, f. leather hose, gaiters, Fms. vi.
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n. a leather box, D. N.
m. leather jacket (as a defence).
a, m. a leather jack, Karl.
n. burial-place, = legstaðr.
n. [liggja], a burial-place, K. Þ. K. 28, Nj. 281, Fms. vii. 251:—the ‘lie,’ position of a county, lands-leg: of grass, liggja í leg, to be laid, of overgrown grass: liggja í leg, to lie waste, of land, Grág. ii. 279; leggja í leg, to desert a farm, 278.
f. lying in bed.
u, f. a lying in bed, Al. 72: of sickness, the lying bedridden: the being so ill as to keep one’s bed, liggja langa legu.
COMPDS: legunautr, leguneyti.
m. (papal) legate.
a, m. [Lat. word], a legate, Fms. viii–x.
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u, f. [Lat. word], a legend.
(legg, lagða, lagiðr, lagðr, laginn), v.
1) to lay, place (Már hafði lagt höfuð sitt í kné Rannveigar);
~ net, to lay a net;
2) to put;
~ eld í, to put fire to;
~ söðul á hest, to put a saddle on a horse;
~ árar upp, to lay up the oars, give up pulling;
~ ofan segi, to haul down, take in the sails;
~ at jörðu, at velli (or við jörðu, við velli), to overthrow, slay, kill;
~ hlut sinn, to lose one’s lot, be worsted;
3) to lay, drop, of a beast (hvelparnir, er eigi vóru lagðir);
4) to lay, make, build;
~ garða, to make fences;
5) to appoint, fix (~ stefnu, leika, bardaga);
6) to tax, value (hann lagði hálft landit fyrir sex tigi silfrs);
~ e-n úgildan, to award no fine for, put no price on;
~ at léttu, to make light of;
7) to settle;
~ sakar, to settle strife;
~ lög, to lay down laws;
~ leið sína, to take a direction;
hann lagði mjök kvámur sínar í Ögr, he was in the habit of coming often to O.;
8) to allot, assign (þér mun lagit verða at vera einvaldskonungr yfir Noregi);
hvat mun til líkna lagt Sigurði, what comfort is there appointed for S.?;
þér var lengra líf lagit, a longer life was destined for thee; …
a causal of liggja, q. v.; pres. legg, pl. leggjum; pret. lagði; subj. legði; imperat. legg or leggðú; part. lagiðr, lagið, lagit; contr. lagðr, lögð, lagt; part. laginn, Fb. ii. 386, which form is in mod. Icel. used as an adjective only; a part. pass. lagztr, lögzt, lagzt, Fas. ii. 345, and in mod. usage: [Ulf. lagjan = τιθέναι; A. S. lecgan; Engl. lay; O. H. G. legjan; Germ. legen; Swed. lägga; Dan. lægge]:—to lay.
A. Prop. to lay, place; ok lagði hann á altara, Ver. 14; er hann var lagiðr á bálit, Hkr. i. 32; á lúðr lagiðr, Vþm.; vóru steinar lagðir í hring utan um, Eg. 486; Már lá útar á bekk, ok hafði lagt höfuð sitt í kné Rannveigar, Sturl. i. 13; leggja net, to lay a net, K. Þ. K. 88:—to lay down, leggja sinn aldr, Ht.
2. to put; leggja band um, umhverfis, to fasten a string round the body, Eg. 340; leggja saman augun, to put the eyes together, shut them, id.; leggja eld í, to put fire to, Nj. 74, 131; leggja hendr at síðum mér, Fms. x. 331; leggja stýri í lag, to put it right, Hkr. i. 32; leggja ofan segl ok viðu, to haul down, take in the sails, Fms. …
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a, m. a nickname, Landn., Rm.
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n. a garter, Karl. 173.
n. pl. pieces of bone in a broken leg.
n. broken legs, Sturl. i. 121.
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u, f. the condyle of a leg, MS. 4. 27.
(-jar, -ir), m.
1) hollow bone (of arms and legs);
2) leg; komast á legg, to grow up (þá vóru synir hans vel á legg komnir);
3) stem of a plant;
4) shank of an anchor;
5) shaft of a spear.
m. [Engl. leg], gen. leggjar, pl. leggir, gen. leggja:—a leg, hollow-bone, of arms and feet, Edda 110, Magn. 532, Stj. 458, Fms. iv. 110, vii. 102; lær-leggr, fót-leggr, of the legs; hand-leggr, arm-leggr (q. v.), of the arms; hann tekr svá við knútunni, þar fylgdi leggrinn með, Fas. i. 67: allit., leggr ok liðr, leg and joint; lið kalla menn þat er leggir mætask, Edda 110: phrases, komask á legg, or rísa á legg, to get on one’s legs, grow up from infancy, grow strong, Eg. 171, Fms. xi. 186, Glúm. 344, Bjarn. 4, Grett. 22 new Ed., Hkr. i. 106.
II. metaph. the stem, trunk of a tree, Fas. i. 119, Hkr. i. 71: the stock of an anchor, Orkn. 362: the shaft of a spear, Slurl. i. 63; of a column, Al. 116: of lineage, ætt-leggr, frænd-leggr, lineage.
III. a pr. name, Sturl.
COMPDS: leggjaband, leggjabrot, leggjaknúta.
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m. [Germ. lägel; Scot. leglin; prob. not from lögr, but through Germ. or Scot. from Lat. lagena]:—a cask, Stj. 128, 367, 388, Mar. 195, Sams. 28, freq. in mod. usage.
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n. seduction, N. G. L. i. 350.
m. bed-mate, mess-mate.
n. a bed-mate, mess-mate, Sturl. iii. 145, Hkr. iii. 394.
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n. companionship, Sks. 293 B.
n. burial-fee.
n. a burial-fee, payable to a church, Grág. ii. 388, N. G. L. i. 346, Bs. i. 812.
n. lying with a woman.
n. fornication, seduction, Anecd. 3, Grág. i. 338, passim, legorðs-sök (-sekt), f. a case (fine) of seduction, Nj. 98, Grág. i. 104, N. G. L. i. 49.
f. rest in bed.
f. the rest in bed, Bs. i. 344, Mar. 112.
m. burial-place.
m. a burial-place, Eb. 176, K. Á. 70, Fms. iv. 3, Bs. i. 813.
m. tombstone.
m. a tombstone, Al. 14, Hkr. i. 122, Fms. viii. 237, Fagrsk. 3.
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n. = legstaðr, D. N.
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m. the burial service; legsöngs kaup, a burial fee, Vm. 47.
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m. an epitaph, Al. 14.
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(-ar, -ir), f.
1) way (fara, ríða ~ sína or ~ar sinnar);
2) way, road (á skóginum vóru tvennar ~ir);
þar er ~ir skildi, where the roads parted;
3) course (on the sea);
segja ~, to pilot;
4) adverb. phrases:
koma e-u til ~ar or á ~, to bring about;
skipast á betri ~, to change to a better way;
á þá ~, in this wise, thus;
fram á ~, á ~ fram, further, all along; afterwards, for the time to come;
5) levy;
~ar at biðja, to call out a levy.
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f. a local assembly (in the Icelandic Commonwealth).
III)
from líða.
1. f. [A. S. lâd; Engl. lode or load (in lodestar, loadstone)]
I. that which leads, a lode, way; ríða, fara, leið sína, Fms. vi. 176, Nj. 260, Eg. 359; or gen. leiðar sinnar, Fms. i. 10; ríða leiðar sinnar, Ísl. ii. 342; inn á leið, inwards, Eg. 81; alla leið, all along, Fb. i. 442; norðan á leið, Eg. 51.
2. a way, road; var honum þar allt kunnigt fyrir, bæði um leiðir ok manna-deili, Eg. 539; á skóginum vóru tvennar leiðir … var sú leiðin skemri, 576; alþýðu-leið, the high road, 579; þar er leiðir skildi, where the roads parted, id.; þeir fara sem leiðir leggja, Fb. i. 253.
3. esp. a naut. term, the course on the sea; þjóð-leið, the highway; inn-leið, the course along the shore; út-leið, djúp-leið, the outer course; segja leið, to pilot, Bs. i. 484; whence the Old Engl. lodesman = pilot.
II. metaph. and adverb. phrases; koma e-u til leiðar, to bring about, Nj. 119, 250, Fms. vi. 300; koma e-u á leið, id., i. 51; snúa til leiðar, id., vi. 122, vii. 136; skipask á betri leið, to change to a better way, Eg. …
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(-dda, -ddr), v.
1) to lead, conduct (Ólafr konungr leiddi Kjartan til skips); ~ upp skip, to drag a ship ashore;
2) fig., ~ augum (sjónum), to behold; ~ hugum, to consider; ~ huga at e-u, to mark, note; ~ spurningum at um e-t, to inquire; ~ getum um e-t, to guess at a thing; ~ ástum, to love; ~ af e-u, to result from;
3) gramm. to pronounce (því at hann leiddi eigi svá sem tíðast er);
4) to bury, lead to the grave (Steinarr leiddi hann uppi í holtum).
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(-dda, -ddr), v.
1) ~ e-m e-t, to make a person loathe or avoid a thing;
2) refl., ~st e-t (acc.), to loathe, get tired of (leiðist manngi gott, ef getr); impers., e-m leiðist, one feels discontented (man honum ~st, ef deildr er verðrinn); mér leiðist e-t, I am tired of (leiðist mönnum opt á at heyra).
u, f. irksomeness, Sks. 325.
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(-dda, -ddr), v.
1) to lead, conduct (Ólafr konungr leiddi Kjartan til skips); ~ upp skip, to drag a ship ashore;
2) fig., ~ augum (sjónum), to behold; ~ hugum, to consider; ~ huga at e-u, to mark, note; ~ spurningum at um e-t, to inquire; ~ getum um e-t, to guess at a thing; ~ ástum, to love; ~ af e-u, to result from;
3) gramm. to pronounce (því at hann leiddi eigi svá sem tíðast er);
4) to bury, lead to the grave (Steinarr leiddi hann uppi í holtum).
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(-dda, -ddr), v.
1) ~ e-m e-t, to make a person loathe or avoid a thing;
2) refl., ~st e-t (acc.), to loathe, get tired of (leiðist manngi gott, ef getr); impers., e-m leiðist, one feels discontented (man honum ~st, ef deildr er verðrinn); mér leiðist e-t, I am tired of (leiðist mönnum opt á at heyra).
1. d, [A. S. lâdjan; Engl. to lead; Germ. leiten; Dan. lede]:—to lead, conduct, lead by the hand; hann tók í hönd henni ok leiddi hana eina saman, Nj. í 29: of guests, hvergi mun ek leiða þik, segir hón, ok far nú vel ok heill! Ld. 188; Ólafr konungr leiddi Kjartan til skips, 190; allir leiddu hann ofan til sjófar, 655 xvi. B. 2; leiddu Hildiríðarsynir hann virðuliga brott með gjöfum, Eg. 52; ef hón fær svá út leitt son sinn, at þat er með þvílíkri stórmensku sem nú leiðir hón hann inn, Ó. H. 31; þann skal út leiða, er maðr vill at aptr komi, a saying, Fær. 101; þá leiddi hann Eirík son sinn í hásæti sitt, Fms. i. 18; leiða fram, Nj. 91: metaph., leiða upp, to drag ashore; ætla þeir at leiða upp skipit undir honum, to draw it ashore, Ld. 78; ær þær er þeir telja at leitt hafi dilkana, Grág. i. 417: leiða konu í kirkju, to church a woman, N. G. L. i. 384, Vm. 76.
II. metaph. phrases, leiða augum (sjónum), to behold, Hým. 13, Sks. 434, Fms. ii. 6, Stj. 719; leiða hugum, to consider, meditate, Sks. 334, 368 (hug-leiðing); leiða huga at, to mark, note, 301, Fms. iv. 33 (at-hugi); …
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(gen. -rs), m.
1) levy, esp. by sea (including men, ships and money); bjóða út ~i, to levy men and ships for war (bjóða út ~i at mönnum ok vistum); hafa ~ úti, to make a sea expedition;
2) war contribution, war tax.
m., the r is radical, [akin to leið; early Swed. lethunger; Dan. leding], an old Scandin. law term, a levy, esp. by sea, including men, ship, and money; bjóða út leiðangri, to levy men and ships for war, Eg. 31; bjóða út leiðangri at mönnum ok vistum, Fms. ix. 33; bjóða út leiðangri ok skipum, i. 12; hafa leiðangr úti, to make a sea expedition, Ó. H. 51; Ólafr konungr fór með liði sínu ok hafði leiðangr úti fyrir landi, 134; samna leiðangr (sea forces), opp. to landherr (land forces), O. H. L. 12: allit. phrases, lið ok leiðangr, Fms. viii. 334, O. H. L. 12, Fb. ii. 303: the proverb, róa leiðangrinn, ok gjalda leiðvítið, to pay the tax first, and the fine to boot (i. e. to pay twice over), Hkr. i. 200; rjúfa leiðangrinn, to break up, of the levies or crews breaking up and returning home, Fms. viii. 307, passim.
2. war contributions, a fixed perpetual duty or tax payable to the king; this sense of the word is esp. freq. in the Norse as also Dan. and Swed. law of the 12th and 13th centuries; þeir tóku leiðangra ok allar konungs-skyldir, Fms. ix. 8, 347; þar tóku þeir Baglar leiðangr mikinn er Einarr hafði saman dregit um Rogaland, 12, 368; …
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n. a fine for default as to the levy or tax, Gþl. 91, 92, D. N. passim.
n. levy-ship.
n. a levy ship, Fms. iv. 320.
f. war expedition.
f. a war expedition, Hkr. i. 391.
n. levied folk.
n. levied folk, Fms. x. 122, xi. 245.
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f. the raising a levy. Fms. vii. 19, Gþl. 75.
n. levied army.
n. a levied army, Fms. i. 62, Ó. H. 154. Fær. 79, Orkn. 68.
m. levied man.
m. a levied man, Fms. viii. 312.
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n. a levied ship, N. G. L. i. 198.
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f. the fixed time of service for a levy, N. G. L. i. 200.
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n. the fine for default in the duty of levy, (lethangs withe, Thorkel. Dipl. i. 3), N. G. L. i. 202.
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adj. ductile, manageable, Post.
m. the day on which the leið was held.
m. the day on which the Leet was held, Ld.
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f. a fixed length, distance, Grág. i. 50, Gpl. 476.
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f. guidance, Stj. 83. leiðar-nesti, n. viands, Fas. iii. 673, Fms. iii. 98.
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n. the section of law referring to the Leet, Grág. l. c.
m. the morning of that day.
m. the Leet morning, Band. 10.
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n. the season of the Leet, the Leet month, Landn. (Hb.) 291; cp. Nj. ch. 87, ‘um haustið … lúka heyverkum.’
m. loadstone.
n. a loadstone; þá höfðu hafsiglingar-menn engir leiðarstein á Norðrlöndum, Landn. (Hb.) 28, Konr. 29; eptir himin-tungla gang ok eptir leiðarsteini, id.
f. lodestar.
u, f. the lodestar, Symb. 31, Rb. 464, Fms. x. 112, Mar.
n. strait, passage.
n. a street, passage, Fas. ii. 249, Fms. viii. 131.
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f. guidance: the name of an old poem.
m. guide.
m. a guide, Ver. 21, Stj. 83, 285, Róm. 236: the name of an old itinerary, Symb. 32.
n. a fine for default in respect of a levy.
n. (leið III), a fine for default in respect to levy, Fms. i. 87.
m. = leiðvöllr.
m. the Leet field, where the Leet is held, K. Þ. K. 29.
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n.
1) leading wind, fair wind (þeir fengu gott ~);
2) tomb (Svíar grétu yfir ~ hans).
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n. irksomeness.
1. n. a leading wind, fair wind; sem leiði gaf, Fms. i. 203, Orkn. 410; gott leiði, 332, Fb. ii. 338, passim; byr-leiði, q. v.
II. [O. H. G. leita], a tomb (leiða III), Ver. 47, Bs. i. 340; mér mislíkar er griðkona þín þerrir fætr sína á leiði mínu jafnan, er hón gengr frá stöðli, Fms. i. 254; stendr þar nú kirkjan sem leiði hans er, Landn. 52; Svíar brenndu hann ok grétu allmjök yfir leiði hans, Hkr. i. 15; var hann grafinn hjá leiði Kols biskups, Bs. i. 64, Fms. vii. 251, Stj. 101, 250, passim; völvu-leiði, Vtkv.
2. a, m. irksomeness, Háv. 40: a feeling uneasy, mod.
n. pl.
1) loathing, dislike; leggja ~ á við e-n, to take a dislike to a person;
2) an unpleasant thing.
n. pl. loathing, Stj. 49, Hom. 9: an unpleasant thing, en biðja ekki griða sér, svá at Þórði væri leiðindi í því, Sturl. iii. 39: an uneasy feeling, líkams krásir göra seði ok leiðindi, Greg. 28; leggja leiðindi á við e-n, to take a dislike to a person, Korm. 132, Pr. 225: in mod. usage, irksomeness, tiresomeness.
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adj. loathsome, tiresome, Stj. 152.
f. leading, persuasion.
f. leading, persuasion, Stat. 260.
COMPDS: leiðingamaðr, leiðingasamr.
m. an easily led person (= leiðitamr maðr).
m. an easily-led person, Fms. iv. 117, Sturl. ii. i.
a. easily led, pliable (= leiðitamr).
adj. = leiðitamr, Sturl.
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m. a leader, N. G. L. i. 357. leiðis-lauss, adj. without a leader, alone, id.
n. a fool to be led about.
n. a fool to be led about, Eb. 250.
a. wearisome.
adj. wearisome, Stj. 152, 246.
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adv. hideously, Háv. 52.
a. hideous.
adj. (mod. leiðin-ligr, Bs. i. 802, Bárð. 178), loathsome, loathly; ljót ok l., Fms. ii. 137, Stj. 417, 436; fúl ok l., 265, Hom. 143, Bs. i. 452: mod. tiresome, irksome, passim.
n. pl. walking and talking with a person.
n. ‘leading-word,’ walking and talking with a person, Ld. 246.
a. easy to be led.
adj. easy to be led, Fms. ii. 112, Hrafn. 20.
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m. a απ. λεγ., Haustl.; wrongly explained by Egilsson, it is evidently the A. S. lâd-þeow = a leader, guide.
a. loathed, disliked (~ e-m); e-m er e-t leitt, one dislikes a thing.
adj., leið, leitt, [A. S. lâð], loathed, disliked; at öllum sér þú at leiðari, Fas. i. 333; at leið sé laun ef þægi, Hm. 37, leið erumk fjöll, Edda (in a verse); andstyggr ok leiðr, Hom. 102; mér eru allir staf-karlar leiðir, Fms. i. 70; e-m er e-t leitt, to dislike, Ld. 44; mér er leitt at segja þik afhendan, Fs. 34: allit., ljúfr ok leiðr, beloved and loathed, Hm. 38; hann segir Sveini þá ljúft ok leitt sem farit hafði, Orkn. 284, Fms. viii. 48, N. G. L. i. 50, 51, Js. 76; see ljúfr.
2. medic., mér er leitt, to feel unwell.
f.
1) guidance, leading;
2) burial, interment.
u, f. guidance, leading, Hom. 61, Anal. 292; hand-l., passim in mod. usage: metaph. a vision, being ‘led’ in a vision through heaven and hell, as in Dante’s Commedia, the Sólarljóð, and other works of the Middle Ages; leiðsla Rannveigar, Bs. i. 451; Duggals-leiðsla, the Vision of Duggal, an old legend; hence the mod. phrase, ganga í leiðslu, to walk as in absence of mind or distraction.
II. burial, interment, Fas. i. 204, Bret.; út-leiðsla. leiðslu-drykkja, u, f. a parting bout, Hkr. iii. 181.
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d, to guide.
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f. guidance.
n. the leið meeting.
n. a Leet meeting, Lv. 8, Nj. 168, Fs. 75.
(-rétta, -réttr), v. to put right, mend, correct.
1. t, to put right, mend, correct, redress, Glúm. 341, Fas. i. 512, Bs. i. 142, K. Á. 66: reflex. to mend oneself, be mended, Stj. 117, Sks. 608, Rb. 3, Greg. 47: passim in mod. usage.
2. u, f. an amending, putting right, K. Á. 226: redress, Sturl. i. 73.
f. setting right, correction.
f. (leið-réttan less correct, Bs. i. 166, cp. Gramm. p. xxxi), a setting right, correction, Hom. 12. 104, Post. 656 A. ii. 7: passim in mod. usage.
f. guidance, direction, esp. piloting.
u, f. ‘lode-saying,’ guidance, Ld. 74, Fms. viii. 52, Bs. ii. 96, Stj. 286: esp. piloting. leiðsögu-maðr, m. a ‘lode-sayer,’ guide, Fs. 105, Gullþ. 5, Fms. vii. 52: esp. a lodesman, pilot, Gþl. 96, Jb. 386, Nj. 122, Rétt. 6. 3.
m. guide, esp. pilot.
and leið-sagnari, a, m. = leiðsagi, Karl. 544, Sturl. iii. 6.
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a, m. a guide, Stj. 284.
m. pl. loathsome runes.
m. pl. loathsome Runes, charms, Ls. 29.
f. = leiðsaga.
f. = leiðsaga, Fms. ix. 233, 376, Sturl. iii. 289, Bs. i. 484. leiðsagnar-maðr, m. = leiðsögumaðr, Fms. viii. 52.
m. guide.
a, m. a guide, Fms. i. 69, Stj. 347, Ísl. ii. 232, 265.
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adv. upon the road, N. G. L. i. 421.
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f. = leiðarvísan, 655 xxvii. 18.
f. knowing the course (on the sea).
n. knowing the course on the sea, Sks. 53.
n. = leiðarvíti.
n. = leiðarvíti, Hkr. i. 250, Hom. (St.); see leiðangr.
m. the field where the leið was held.
m. the ‘thing-wall’ or place of a Leet, K. Þ. K. 29, Ísl. ii. 92.
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f. and Leifr, m., pr. names, Landn.; and in compds, of women, Ingi-leif, Ás-leif, etc.; of men, Þor-leifr, Hjör-leifr, etc., id.
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f., pl. leifar, [Ulf. laiba, Mark viii. 8]:
I. sing. a ‘leaving,’ patrimony, inheritance, of an estate: freq. in Norse and Dan. local names, Haders-lev, Snolde-löv, = Höðrs-leif, Snjalls-leif, but obsolete and not used in Icel.; cp. leifð.
II. pl. leifar, leavings, remnants, esp. of food; hann blótaði forsinn, skyldi bera leifar allar í forsinn, Landn. 291; varga leifar, Gkv.; sjö karfir með afgangs-leifar, Mark viii. 8; en er þeir vóru mettir, þá hirði Arnljótr leifar þeirra, Ó. H. 153, passim.
2. metaph. effects; ílla gefa ílls ráðs leifar, Nj. 20.
(-ða, -ðr), v.
1) to leave (food) over; to leave as heritage (hann leifði honum löng ok lausa-fé);
2) to leave behind, relinquish, abandon (þeir leifðu skipin í Raumsdal).
ð, [Ulf. bi-laibjan = περιλείπειν; A. S. lyfan; Engl. leave; O. H. G. liban; Germ. b-leiben; cp. Dan. levne, Swed. lämna, Lat. linquere, Gr. λείπειν]:—to leave a heritage; hann leifði honum lönd ok lausa-fé, Rb. 318.
2. to relinquish; vér höfurn leift fyrir þínar sakir allt þat er vér áttum, Flóv. 28; ek mun þann kost taka, at leifa konungs-nafn heldr en berjask, Fms. xi. 222; þeir leifðu skipin í Raumsdal, vii. 291; eða sýnisk yðr at leifa skipin ok ganga á land, viii. 214.
3. to leave out; ef menn leifa nokkut orð í kviðum eða vættum, Grág. i. 138; ok hafa þat allt er hizug leifir (thus the vellum, not leyfir) eðr glöggra er, and adopt whatever has been left out in the other book or what is clearer, 7.
4. to leave, of food; fjórir hleifar ok þar með slátr, ok leifir hann þess ekki, Fms. iv. 246:—reflex., eigi skal nokkurr hlutr af lambinu leifask, ef nokkut vætta leifisk svá at ekki verðr etið, þá skulu þér þat í eldi brenna, Stj. 280.
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f. = leif (I), only in compds, föður-leifð, ætt-l., patrimony.
I)
(-ða, -ðr), v. to hire, rent; ~ e-t at e-m, to hire from a person.
II)
f.
1) hire, rent, opp. to innstœða (capital); byggja fé á leigu, to let money out at interest; leggja leigu eptir höfn, to pay a harbour duty;
2) wages, pay (kallast hann engrar leigu makligr).
1. ð, mod. leigja, [Dan. leje], to hire; leiga e-t at e-m, to hire from a person, Grág. i. 427; útlegð varðar þeim er þiggr lán eða leigir, ef hann veit at fleiri eigu, 437; hinn er landit leigir, who holds the land, Nj. 236; hann leigði land tíu hundruðum, Bs. i. 418; leiga jörð, N. G. L. ii. 105; ok leiga (leigja, v. l.) sér til liðs þarlenzkan her, Stj. 512; hann leigði Þorlaugu garð, Fms. v. 322; leiga kú, N. G. L. i. 24; leigja verk-mann, 219; leiga þræl, 35.
2. n. rent; only in the phrase, selja at leiga, to lend on interest, Grág. i. 398, 427; þann er léði eðr leiga seldi, 434.
I)
(-ða, -ðr), v. to hire, rent; ~ e-t at e-m, to hire from a person.
II)
f.
1) hire, rent, opp. to innstœða (capital); byggja fé á leigu, to let money out at interest; leggja leigu eptir höfn, to pay a harbour duty;
2) wages, pay (kallast hann engrar leigu makligr).
u, f. hire, rent, Grág. i. 340, 502, B. K. 9, 41: opp. to instæða (capital), byggja fé á leigu, to let money out on interest, Bs. i. 684; selja kú á leigu, N. G. L. i. 24; reiða leigu af, to pay the rent of, 25; hverr á jörð þá er þú býr á? þér eigit, herra, ok takit leigur af, Fms. viii. 446, Grág. i. 188; leggja leigu eptir höfn, to pay a harbour duty, Fms. xi. 321: of passage money, spurði hvar þat fé væri er hann bauð í leigu undir sik, Nj. 128.
2. wages; kallask hann engrar leigu makligr, Fms. xi. 428, Gpl. 81: of a soldier’s pay, Flóv. 30; lét biskup reiða honum fyrir smíðina mikla leigu, Bs. i. 872, Stj. 561.
3. in mod. usage, leigur, pl. = a kind of land-rent paid in butter, as the rent of a certain number of kúgildi which belong to each farm.
COMPDS: leiguból, leiguburðr, leigufall, leigufé, leigufærr, leigugenta, leigujörð, leigukona, leigukýr, leiguland, leigulauss, leiguliði, leigumaðr, leigumál, leigumáli, leiguprestr, leigustaðr.
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ð, = leiga, N. G. L. i. 219, Stj. 512 (v. l.), and in mod. usage.
n. rented farm.
n. a rented farm, Grág. ii. 207, 208, Gþl. 344.
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m. rent of land, Gþl. 255, Jb. 377, Dipl. iii. 9.
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n. default in paying rent, Gþl. 332: deduction from wages, 514.
n. hired cattle.
n. cattle (chattel) hired, Grág. passim, Landn. 239.
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adj. rentable, Fr.
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u, f. a servant girl, D. N.
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f. a rented farm, N. G. L. ii. 107.
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u, f. a female servant, Fr.
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f. a hired cow, N. G. L. i. 24, Grág. ii. 430, H. E. i. 394.
n. rented land.
n. rented land, Grág. ii. 249, 337, Nj. 118.
a. rent free, without interest.
adj. rent free, without interest, Grág. i. 191, 336, 398: gratuitous, Vm. 29.
m. tentant.
a, m. a tenant, Gþl. 354, 355, N. G. L. i. 37.
m. tentant.
m. a tenant, Grág. ii. 210, 430, Ld. 2, Fms. i. 5: a hireling, Gþl. 107, 512, Mar., Flóv. 32.
n. agrement as to rent, lease.
n. an agreement (as to rent), Grág. ii. 332.
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a, m. an agreement (as to rent), N. G. L. i. 24, Grág. i. 427, Gþl. 336: of rented land, N. G. L. i. 242.
m. hired priest, curate.
m. a hired priest, a curate, Fms. ix. 272, D. N. passim.
m. a place where money is invested, investment.
m. a place where money is invested, investment, Nj. 31, Sturl. i. 97, B. K. 41.
m. tenant.
m. a tenant, Grág. i. 297, N. G. L. ii. 105. leiglendinga-þáttr, m. a section about tenancy, Grág. ii. 232.
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(leik; lék, lékum; leikinn), v.
1) to play (við skulum nú ~ fyrst);
~ leik, to play a play;
~ tveim skjöldum, to play a double game;
~ at e-u, to play (amuse oneself) with (Katla sat ok lék at hafri sínum);
~ at tafli, to play at chess;
~ sér, to play (hann lék sér þá enn á gólfi með öðrum börnum);
2) to perform, of a feat or act of prowess (en ek hygg, at engi annarr fái þat leikit);
3) to move, swing, wave to and fro, hang loosely (~ á lopti);
landit skalf sem á þræði léki, as if balanced on a string;
4) of flame, fire, water, waves, to play lightly about or over, lick (eldr tók at ~ húsin);
eldrinn lék skjótt, the fire spread fast;
leikr hár hiti við himin sjálfan, the lofty blaze plays against the very heavens;
fig., e-m leikr e-t í skapi (í mun), one feels inclined to, has a mind to (þat leikr mér í skapi at kaupa Íslandsfar);
5) to deal (hardly) with, to (ill-)treat (~ e-n illa, hart, sárt, sárliga);
6) to play a trick upon, delude, = ~ á e-n (djöfullinn leikr þá alla);
7) to bewitch, esp. in pp. (maðr sá var leikinn af flagði einu);
8) with preps.:
~ á e-n, to play a trick upon (mjök hefir þú á oss leikit); …
1. n., pl. leiku, a plaything, doll, puppet; þú ert leikum ljosari, MS. 4. 9; ek skal færa þik Hildigunni dóttur minni, ok skal hón hafa þik fyrir leika (leiku Ed.), Fas. ii. 233; þótt hann þykki trautt hvers barns leika vera, Fms. xi. 95; léku þeir sér um dag, ok bað Steinólfr Arngrím ljá sér messingar hest—Arngrímr svarar, ek mun gefa þér, þvíat þat er nú heldr þitt leika en mitt fyrir aldrs sökum, Glúm. 353; kurraði þat hverr í sínum híbýlum, at vetrgestr Brynjólfs mundi eigi vera hversdags leika, Sturl. iii. 127: plur., fögr leiku eru þetta, O. H. L. 50; þeir tveir trémenn er Frey höfðu fengnir verit til leikna, Fb. i. 403.
2. u, f. = leika, n. but a later form, mín leika, Grett. 107 new Ed., cp. Fas. ii. 233.
2. a play-sister = leiksystir; vit vetr níu vórum leikur, Gs. 11; Dvalins-leika, Lex. Poët.
3. cunnus.
I)
(leik; lék, lékum; leikinn), v.
1) to play (við skulum nú ~ fyrst);
~ leik, to play a play;
~ tveim skjöldum, to play a double game;
~ at e-u, to play (amuse oneself) with (Katla sat ok lék at hafri sínum);
~ at tafli, to play at chess;
~ sér, to play (hann lék sér þá enn á gólfi með öðrum börnum);
2) to perform, of a feat or act of prowess (en ek hygg, at engi annarr fái þat leikit);
3) to move, swing, wave to and fro, hang loosely (~ á lopti);
landit skalf sem á þræði léki, as if balanced on a string;
4) of flame, fire, water, waves, to play lightly about or over, lick (eldr tók at ~ húsin);
eldrinn lék skjótt, the fire spread fast;
leikr hár hiti við himin sjálfan, the lofty blaze plays against the very heavens;
fig., e-m leikr e-t í skapi (í mun), one feels inclined to, has a mind to (þat leikr mér í skapi at kaupa Íslandsfar);
5) to deal (hardly) with, to (ill-)treat (~ e-n illa, hart, sárt, sárliga);
6) to play a trick upon, delude, = ~ á e-n (djöfullinn leikr þá alla);
7) to bewitch, esp. in pp. (maðr sá var leikinn af flagði einu);
8) with preps.:
~ á e-n, to play a trick upon (mjök hefir þú á oss leikit); …
pres. leik; pret. lék, léku; part. leikinn; [Ulf. laikan = σκιρταν; A. S. lâcan; mid. H. G. leiche; Dan. lege; Swed. leka; North. E. to lake]:—to play, sport, Vsp. 42, Am. 76; hann leikr nú eptir magni, Lv. 28; leika leik, 68; hann lék fyrir honum marga fimleika, Fær. 66; leika at skáktafli, to play at chess, Fms. iv. 366; en er þeir léku at taflinu, þá lék konungr fingrbrjót mikinn, ok sagði hann skyldi annat leika, id.; leika hörpu, to play the harp, Stj. 458; leika sungfæri, 631:—leika sér, to play, esp. of children, passim; as also, leika sér at e-u, to play at a thing, passim.
2. to delude, play a trick on; Djöfullinn leikr þá alla, Andr. 66: esp. with prepp., leika á e-n, to play a trick on a person, Nj. 155; mjök hefir þú á oss leikit, nær sem vér fáum þess hefnt, Grett. 149; ef aðrir leita á oss, þá má vera at vér leikim þá enn nokkut í mot, to make a counter move, Boll. 346; lék hón feðr sinn af sér, she played him off, Stj. 181; svá at eins leikr þú við flesta vini þína, Fms. ii. 181.
3. ef svá ílla er, at um þat sé at leika, if that is on the cards, Fms. …
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f.
1) pulley;
2) sport, jest.
f. a sport, jest, Ísl. ii. 451.
m. scurrility.
m. scurrility, histrionic manners, H. E. ii. 113, 138.
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m. a lay, Mar.
m. player, jester.
a, m. [North. E. laker], a player, esp. a fiddler, jester, MS. 623. 18, Fms. viii. 207, Fagrsk. (in a verse), Hkr. i. 30, Al. 41, Th. 77.
COMPDS: leikaraskapr, leikarasöngr.
a. playful, gay.
adj. playful, gay, Fms. ii. 169, vii. 175, Mar. 280.
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f. the name of an ogress, perhaps with reference to the ancient belief that sicknesses arise from the being ‘ridden’ by witches, Edda 54 (in a verse), cp. Edda (Gl.); leiknar hestr, the ‘ogress steed,’ poët. the wolf, Hallfred; the Leikin, Vsp. 25, is prob. identical, seið hón leikin, she (the prophetess) worshipped witches (trolls) = she was a sorceress.
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f. playfulness, curiosity; göra e-ð til leiknis, Ísl. Þjóðs. i. 615.
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(-s, -ar), m. game, play, sport;
láta (vinna) leikinn, to lose (win) the game;
á nýja leik, anew;
við illan leik, narrowly, with a narrow escape (þeir kómust þar yfir við illan leik);
hann segir þeim hvat leika (gen.), hvat í leikum er, he told them what the game was, what was the matter;
~ er görr til e-s, a person is aimed at, is the mark of an attack;
gera leik til e-s, to mock one.
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a. lay (lærðir ok leikir).
m. an inflexion or termination, see Gramm. p. xxxiii, col. 1.
I)
(-s, -ar), m. game, play, sport;
láta (vinna) leikinn, to lose (win) the game;
á nýja leik, anew;
við illan leik, narrowly, with a narrow escape (þeir kómust þar yfir við illan leik);
hann segir þeim hvat leika (gen.), hvat í leikum er, he told them what the game was, what was the matter;
~ er görr til e-s, a person is aimed at, is the mark of an attack;
gera leik til e-s, to mock one.
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a. lay (lærðir ok leikir).
m., dat. leiki is freq. in poetry and old prose, but mod. leik; plur. in old usage always leikar, even in late MSS. such as Fb. iii. 405; but in mod. usage leikir, acc. leiki: the phrase ‘á nýja leik’ seems to point to a lost feminine leik: [Ulf. laiks = χορός, Luke xv. 25; A. S. lâc; North. E. laik; O. H. G. leik; Dan. leg; Swed. lek]:—a game, play, sport, including athletics, Eg. 147, Edda 31–33, Fs. 60; ok eigi var sá leikr er nokkurr þyrfti við hann at keppa, Nj. 29; sjá skulum vér leika þína (not leiki), Fb. iii. 405; leika ok gleði, Fagrsk. ch. 26; slá leik, to set up a game (cp. slá danz), Sturl. ii. 190 (of a game of ball): of a dance, Bret. 42; hann hendi gaman at aflraunum ok leikum, … knattleikar vóru þá tiðir, Eg. 187; leikr var lagiðr á Hvítár-völlum allfjölmennr, 188; sveinninn var á leiki með öðrum ungmennum, Fms. i. 78; fara at (með) leik sínum, to roam about, Boll. 336, Fms. x. 159; hverir eiga hér leik svá újafnan? Nj. 125: of a ceremony, Fbr. 7: of capping verses, Bs. i. 237; cp. streng-leikr, a ‘string-play,’ lay.
2. metaph. a game, sport, Grett. 50 new Ed.; hann segir þeim um hvat leika (gen. …
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n. ‘sway-blade,’ poët. a pinion, Haustl.
pp. sportive.
part. sportive, MS. 4. 6.
n. play-board.
n. a play-board; skjóta (ljótu) leikborði fyrir e-n, to turn the tables upon a person, Gg. 1, Grett. (in a verse).
m. playmate.
m. a play-fellow, Fær. 58.
II. [Lat. laicus], a lay-brother received into a convent, D. N. iv. 89.
m. laity, = leikfólk.
m. the laity, Bs. i. 750, Sturl. iii. 63.
n. wrestling.
n. wrestling, Jb. 83: mod. a plaything.
f. sport.
f. sport, Bs. ii. 28.
m. play-fellow.
a, m. a play-fellow, Karl. 176.
n. lay-folk, laity.
n. lay-folk, laity, Bs. ii. 138, K. Þ. K. 140.
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a, m. a nickname, Landn.
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m. a ‘play-ball,’ top, Jón Þorl.
a. lay.
adj. [Lat. laicus], lay, Bs. ii. 45.
I)
m. layman.
II)
m. player.
m. a layman, Sturl. iii. 60, Bs., K. Á., H. E. passim.
II. [leikr], a player, Gísl. 32, Sturl. i. 23.
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adv. jester-like, Mar.
a. playful, merry.
adj. playful, merry, Ísl. ii. 439, Bárð. 8 new Ed.
n. ‘play-meeting’, public athletic sports.
n. a ‘play-meeting,’ public athletic sports, Eg. 188, Fs. 43.
m. play-shed.
a, m. a play-shed, Eb. 216. Leik-skálar, m. pl. local name, Landn.; see leikr above.
f. = leikmót.
u, f. = leikmót, Clem. 31.
m. playmate.
m. a playmate, Stj. 578, Fs. 130, Vígl.
n. lay power, laity.
n. the lay-power, laity, Bs. ii. 21.
m. play-ground.
m. a play-ground, Fas. ii. 407, Skálda 170, Bær. 7, Tistr. 3.
(gen. ~ar, pl. ~ir), f. lightning flash.
m., gen. leiptrs, a kind of whale or dolphin, Dan. lyft, Edda (Gl.); hnísa … eða leiptr er eigi verðr lengri en sjau álna, Sks. 203, Lex. Poët.
(gen. ~ar, pl. ~ir), f. lightning flash.
f., pl. leiptrir, Hkv. 1. 15; gen. sing. leiptrar, 2. 29; but in mod. usage neut.:—lightning, Sks. 203, passim in mod. usage.
2. in poetry; hræ-l., ‘carrion-lightning’ = a sword; or víg-l., ‘war-lightning,’ id.; alnar-l., ‘arm-lightning’ = gold; enni-leiptr, the ‘brow-lightning’ = the eye, see Lex. Poët.; leiptra hrót, the ‘lightning-roof’ = the sky, Harms.: leiptr is the name of a sword, Edda (Gl.)
II. the name of a myth. river, cp. the Gr. Πυριφλεγέθων, Gm.: an oath sworn by this river, Hkv. 2. 29.
(að), v. to flash, shine.
að, to flash, of lightning, but also of the twinkling of stars, the eyes, and the like, Fas. ii. 368, Karl. 542.
n. clay, loam, mud.
n., as in leirinu, Stj. 72, 414; með góðu leiri ok seigu, Sks. 417; leirit, Fms. ix. 511, v. l. In mod. usage leirr, m., which also occurs in Fms. ix. 511 (leirrinn); grár leirr, Orkn. 374 (in a verse); leirinum, Fb. i. 354, Orkn. 336, but leirinu öllu two lines below; leirnum, Fas. iii. 583; leirinn, Orkn. 374 (Fb.); thus the older vellums prefer the neut., the later the masc.; [Dan. leer; Swed. ler; Scot. lair]:—clay, earth, loam, but also mud, esp. on the beach, passim, see the references above: in plur. leirar = leira (q. v.)
II. metaph. and poët., arnar leir, ‘eagle’s mud’ = bad poetry, referring to the legend told in the Edda 49, alluded to in Gd. 2, Sturl. ii. 56 (in a verse); as also in mod. usage, whence leir-skáld, n. a poetaster: local names, Leir-á, Leir-vík, etc.
COMPDS: leirbakki, leirblót, leirbolli, leirbrúsi, leirburðr, leirbúð, leirdepill, leirgata, leirgröf, leirjötunn, leirkelda, leirker, leirkerasmiðr, leirkrukka, leirljós, leirmaðr, leirpottr, leirskáld, leirsletta, leirsmiðr, leirstokkinn, leirtjörn, leirvaðill, leirvík, Leirvör.
f. muddy shore, mud-flat.
u, f. a ‘loam field,’ the muddy shore at low water mark, Fms. viii. 315, ix. 44, 405, x. 138, O. H. L. 14, 15, Orkn. 336, Eb. 84 (v. l.) new Ed.: a nickname, Fb. iii: local names, Leiru-lækr, Leiru-vágr, Landn., Fs.
COMPDS: leirubekkr, leiruvík.
f. muddy shore, mud-flat.
u, f. the river Loire in France, Ó. H.
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adj. loamy, muddy, Fms. v. 230, Stj. 291.
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m. a potter, N. T.
m. muddy brook.
m. a muddy brook, Fms. viii. 421.
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f. = leirvík, Fms. iv. 153.
m. clayey bank.
a, m. a clayey bank, Fms. v. 252.
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n. a clay idol, N. G. L. i. 383.
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a, m. an earthen bowl.
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a, m. an earthen pot.
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m. bad poetry.
f. clay booth.
f. a clay booth, Bs. i. 249, ii. 157.
m. clayey spot.
m. a loamy spot, O. H. L.
f. clayey path.
u, f. a loamy path, Nj. 84.
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f. a loam-pit, Nj. 84, v. l.
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m. the clay giant, Edda 58.
f. clay-pit.
u, f. a loam-pit, Bs. i. 577.
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m. an earthen pot.
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u, f. an earthen ‘crock,’ Ver. 25.
a. of clay.
adj. of clay, Bs. ii. 157.
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adj. grayish, of a horse.
m. clay man.
m. a clay-man, Edda ii. 298.
m. earthen pot.
m. an earthen pot, Sks. 543.
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n. a poetaster.
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u, f. a blot of mud, Róm. 259.
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m. a potter, Matth. xxvii. 7.
pp. mud-splashed.
part. mud-splashed, Hrafn. 7.
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f. a loam-pit, El.
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m. a shallow mud bank, Stj. 135.
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f. a muddy creek, Hkr. ii. 196: a local name = Lerwick in Shetland.
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f. the name of an ogress, Edda.
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f. pl. breeks with stockings fastened to them, long hose, Eb. 242, Nj. 212, Ísl. ii. 218.
a. without a foot-piece or sock (leistalausar brœkr).
adj. without a foot-piece, Fms. vi. 205.
(-s, -ar), m. stocking-foot, sock.
m. [Ulf. laists = ἴχνος; A. S. læst; Engl. cobbler’s last; Dan. læst; cp. Germ. leisten, prop. = to follow in the footsteps]:—the foot below the ankle, Edda 100.
2. a short sock; hefir flagnað framan af fætinum öðrum skinnit með nöglunum á þann hátt sem leistr, Bs. i. 618; ok brann í gegnum skóinn ok leistinn (v. l. hosuna), ok fótrinn brann, Þiðr. 358, v. l.: mod., há-leistr, a ‘hough-last,’ a sock reaching to the ankle: poët., hyrjar-leistr, Ýt. 20; leista tré, the leg, Edda 100.
COMPDS: leistabrækr, leistalauss.
I) f.
1) search;
fara á ~ e-s, to go in search of a thing;
2) exploring party, search-party (jarl var sjálfr í ~inni).
II) from líta.
f. a search, exploration, as also an exploring party, expedition; jarl var sjálfr í leitinni, Nj. 131; fóru þrír í hverja leit, Eg. 220; konungr mun seint af hyggja um leitina, Fms. vi. 381; skipta þeir liði sínu í helminga til leitar í skóginum, x. 218; þeir spurðu at hestum þeim, er þeir vóru á leit komnir, the horses which they were ‘laiting’ come in search of, Ísl. ii. 349: plur., hvers þú á leitum ert, what art thou seeking? Fsm.: in a local sense, skulu vér fara dreift, þvíat leitin er víð, Fms. i. 70: in plur. leitir, ‘sheep-laiting,’ the search for sheep in the mountain pastures in autumn.
(að), v.
1) to seek, search, with gen. (heraðsmenn leituðu hennar ok fundu hana eigi);
~ e-m e-s, to seek (try to get) a thing for one (~ e-m kvánfangs);
~ sér lífs, to seek to save one’s life;
2) to seek for help (vil ek, at þú leitir aldri annarra en mín, ef þú þarft nökkurs við);
~ ráða, to seek for advice;
3) to act (proceed) towards one;
ef yðar er illa ~t, if you are challenged;
4) to try to go, proceed on a journey;
~ braut ór landi, to go abroad;
~ á fund e-s, to visit a person;
5) to seek, try, with infin. (þá ~ði Kálfr at flytja brœðr sína ofan til skips);
6) with preps.:
~ at e-m, to seek for a person, = ~ e-s (var þá ~t at lækninum);
~ at um e-t = ~ eptir um e-t;
~ á e-n, to attack or assail one, to blame or reprehend one;
~ á, to try, make an attempt to get a thing (hvar skulu vit á ~?);
~ á um kvánfang, to look for a wife;
~ eptir e-u, to seek for;
~ eptir máli, to follow a case, take it up;
~ eptir um e-t, to inquire into;
~ eptir við e-n, to inquire of a person;
~ fyrir sér, to save oneself by flight (leggjum á flótta, verðr nú hverr at ~ fyrir sér);
að, prop. a causal from líta, [Ulf. wlaiton = περιβλέπεσθαι; North. E. to lait; Dan. lede]:—to seek, search, with gen. leita e-s, or with prep. leita at e-u, or absol., héraðsmenn leituðu hennar ok fundu hana eigi, Nj. 14; leita lands, Fms. ii. 214; Hængr sigldi í haf ok leitaði Íslands, Eg. 99, Landn. 27, 32, Fms. i. 27, 71; leita e-m kvánfangs, Eg. 22, passim: metaph., ef yðar er ílla leitað, if you are challenged, rudely treated, Nj. 139; þótt hans væri eigi vel leitað, Fb. ii. 73:—hón leitaði í eina hirzlu, Fms. iv. 37; leituðu þeir um skóginn allan, i. 72; Njáll leitaði Höskuldi um manna-forráð, Nj. 149: leita at e-m, to seek for, Fms. ix. 218; ok leiti þér at honum Höskuldi, Nj. 171, passim in mod. usage: leita eptir e-m, id., Fms. i. 69: the phrase, leita sér staðar, to go on one’s business, cacare, Hm. 113, Fær. 197.
II. metaph. to seek for help; vil ek at þú leitir aldri annarra en mín ef þú þarft nokkurs við, Nj. 74; leita sér heilla, Landn. 33; leita lækninga, to seek for healing, to call in a physician, Johan. 26; leita ráða, to seek for advice, Nj. 75.
2. to enquire, examine, Sks. …
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n. hill, elevation, height.
1. n. [from líta], a hill or elevation on the horizon hiding the view, Eg. 220, Grág. i. 433, Fms. viii. 147, Orkn., Stj. 401; leiti berr á milli, Nj. 263, Fbr. 55 new Ed.; fara svá at á sínu leiti er jafnan hverr, Mar.; ef hann sæi nokkurn mann ríða um leitið fram, Glúm. 363, Bjarn. 25 (in a verse), Edda (Gl.); Oðinn hleypti svá mikit, at hann var á öðru leiti fyrir, Edda 57; þeir riðu undir leiti nokkut, en þeir sásk aldri síðan, Nj. 279; varð fyrir þeim leiti nokkut mjök hátt, Fms. vii. 68: freq. in mod. usage, esp. in Icel. local names.
2. n. [hlutr], a share, part; see hleyti.
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adj. [líta], looking so and so, in compds, see Gramm. p. xxxiv, col. 1. (IX.)
f. = leiðsla.
n, f. = leiðsla, q. v.
(lek; lak, lákum; lekit), v.
1) to drip, dribble (af þeim legi, er lekit hafði ór hausi Heiðdraupnis);
2) to leak, be leaky (húsit, skipit, keraldit lekr).
pres. lek; pret. lak, láku; part. lekit; a weak part. lekat occurs, Fms. ix. 345; [A. S. leccan; Engl. leak; Dan, lække]:—prop. to drip, dribble; af þeim legi er lekit hafði ór hausi Heiðdraupnis, Sdm. 13:—to leak, of a ship or vessel, en hón lak eigi heldr enn it þéttasta kerald, Bs. i. 596; var mjök lekat skipit, Fms. ix. 345; leka eins og hrip, freq. in mod. usage: of milch kine, en á öðru kvikfé ef þat lekr, Jb. 366.
m. leakage, leak; kóma þá lekar at skipinu, the ship sprang a leak.
a, m. a leakage, leak; kómu þá lekar at skipinu, Grett. 96: the phrase, sjá við þeim leka, to see to a future leak (emergency).
a. leaky (skipin vóru lek).
adj. (compar. lekari, N. G. L. i. 199), leaky, Grett. 94, Jb. 378, Fms. ix. 381, Stj. 367, N. G. L. i. 304.
m. lectern, reading desk.
a, m. [eccl. Lat. lectorium], a lectern, reading desk, Vm. 10, 52, Dipl. v. 18, Bs. i. 797.
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u, f. [Lat. word], a lesson, 625. 169, Vm. 38.
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m. [Lat. word], a reader, Ver. 49.
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m. pl. ‘leak-beams,’ prob. a kind of pump, Edda (Gl.)
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d, [lamb], to lamb; lembd ær, a ewe with lamb, Stj. 185, Grág. i. 502.
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f. lameness, from a blow, N. G. L. i. 30, 67.
(lem, lamda, lamiðr), v.
1) to thrash, flog, beat (þeir lömdu hann náliga til bótleysis);
2) l. niðr, to beat down, suppress (hafa vald til þess at niðr l. allan mátt illgjarnra anda);
3) refl. to be severely injured (svá mikit högg, at haussinn lamdist).
pres. lem; pret. lamði; part. lamiðr, Glúm. 342; imperat. lem, lemdu, Skíða R. 131; lamdr, and mod. also laminn, Mar. 637: [A. S. læman; provinc. Engl. lam = to thrash; Germ. lähmen]:—to thrash, flog, beat, so as to lame or disable; urðu þar áttján menn sárir en margir lamðir, Fms. ix. 355; lemja mun ek bogann fyrir honum ef ek má, x. 362; Þorbjörn bað hann starfa betr, ella kvaðsk hann mundu lemja hann, Grett. í 20; þeir lömðu hann náliga til bótleysis, 154; lamðan til heljar, Am. 41; ok lemða (subj.) alla í liðu, Ls. 43; ok ætt jötuns alla lamði, Þkv. 31; munu eigi öll úlamið (neut. pl.), Glúm. 340; lemja í smátt, to smash, Mar.; lamða (lame), halta ok blinda, Greg. 28; fugli með lamðum vængjum, Hom. 142: lemja á e-m, to ‘lam into one,’ give one a thrashing, Skíða R. 135.
II. metaph. to suppress; skulu bændr taka frá segl ok lemja (to upset) svá för þeirra, N. G. L. i. 103; hann ætlaði svá at lemja fyrir þeim smíðina, Stj. 312; viðvörun hræðslu lemr holdið, Hom. 14: lemja niðr, to beat down, suppress, Fms. ii. 199.
III. reflex., Gunnarr hjó á hönd Hallgrimi, ok lamðisk handleggrinn, en sverðit beit ekki, Nj. …
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ad, [a mod. for. word borrowed from the Dan. læmpe; cp. A. S. limpan]:—to temper, accommodate; lempa sig eptir e-u.
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or lempiligr, adj. pliable, gentle.
m. lameness, infirmity.
m., gen. lemstrar, a severe contusion; lemstr málhelti minnar, Hom. 143.
COMPDS: lemstrhögg, lemstrarsár.
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að, to contuse.
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n. a disabling wound, Gþl. 180, Ann. 1398.
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n. a blow causing contusion, D. N. iv. 84.
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part. deaf, Anecd. 2 new Ed.
(pl. -ir and -ar), f. loin, rump.
f., pl. lendir, mod. also lendar; [A. S. lenden; Old Engl. lendes; Scot. lendis; Engl. loins; O. H. G. lenti; Germ. lende]:—the loin; the mod. usage distinguishes between the sing., the loin or croup of a horse and pl. lendar of the human loins; lendir yðrar skulu þér gyrða, Hom. 84 (Luke xii. 35); munu konungar út af þínum lendum fæðask, Stj., Sks. 404; undir herðum, lendum, knés-botum, Edda 40; lenda-kláði, Fas. iii. 102:—of a horse, hann flær af henni alla baklengjuna aptr á lend, Grett. 91; á lend hestinum, Nj. 91; hann klappar á lend hestinum, Bs. i. 633; um höfuð, lend, brjóst ok kvið ok allan hest, Sks. 404. lenda-verkr, m. ‘loin-work,’ lumbago, Pr. 471, Ld. 32.
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(-da, -nt), v.
1) to land, with dat. (l. báti, skipi);
2) to land, come to land (síðan lendu þeir upp frá Bakka);
3) impers., e-m lendir saman, to clash, come into conflict (mun ek ekki letja, at oss lendi saman); e-u lendir, to come to an end; þar lendir þessi viðrœðu, at, the end of this talk was, that.
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f. land, estate.
u, f. land, fields; hann átti hundruð kúgilda á leigu-stöðum ok tíu lendur, Sturl. i. 97; víðar lendur ok fagrar, Ld. 96; lendur ok lausa-fé, Fms. i. 289.
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(-da, -nt), v.
1) to land, with dat. (l. báti, skipi);
2) to land, come to land (síðan lendu þeir upp frá Bakka);
3) impers., e-m lendir saman, to clash, come into conflict (mun ek ekki letja, at oss lendi saman); e-u lendir, to come to an end; þar lendir þessi viðrœðu, at, the end of this talk was, that.
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f. land, estate.
d, mod. t, [land], to land, Fms. vii. 31, viii. 33, ix. 23, Eb. 234, Ld. 32, passim: lenda skipi, Fbr. 163.
II. metaph. impers., e-m lendir saman, to come into collision with, close with one another; oss (dat.) mun nú saman lenda ef þér látið eigi lausan manninn, Fms. vii. 117; mun ek ekki letja at oss lendi saman, Ld. 324; munuð þer (= mun yðr?) saman lenda, nema miðlat sé málum, Bjarn. 55.
2. e-u lendir, to be landed, to come to an end; þar lendir þessi viðræðu ok hjali, Fms. xi. 52; hér lendir með þeim, at …, Bs. ii. 72, eigi vitu vér hvar þessu máli lendir, Mar.: absol., lenda í vanda, to be landed in difficulties, get into scrapes, Karl. 308; svá mikit ofrefli at eigi mátti lenda, Þiðr. 272.
III. to give land to a person, with acc.; en hverr sem lendir hann við minna, sekr eyri, N. G. L. iii. 37.
f. landing, landing-place.
f. a landing, landing-place, Lv. 93, Fms. ii. 93.
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f. a landing-place, N. G. L. i. 243, 380, v. l.
a.
1) landed; l. maðr, ‘landed-man’, holding land or emoluments from the king;
2) in compds. (í~, inn~, sam~, út~).
adj. landed, esp. as a law term; lendr maðr, lendir menn, = ‘landed-men’ or the barons of ancient Scandinavia, holding land or emoluments (veizlur) from the king, and answering to hersir (q. v.) of a still earlier time; heita þeir hersar eða lendir menn í Danskri tungu, Edda 93; gjörði konungr þá Þórólf lendan mann, ok veitir honum þá allar veizlur þær er áðr hafði Bárðr haft, Eg. 35, Sks. 5, Fms. i. 60, ix. 496, Gþl. 12, and passim in the Laws and Sagas, but never referring to the Icel. Commonwealth.
II. in compds, víð-lendr, í-lendr, sam-lendr (q. v.), út-lendr, outlandish.
pp. sprung from the landed gentry.
part. ‘land-born,’ of the landed gentry, Eg. 342, Fms. viii. 155.
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f. expectance of a fief, N. G. L. i. 360.
f. length (of space and time); til ~ar, long, for a long time; nú (or í bráð) ok ~ar, for now and hereafter.
f. [langr], length of space and time, Bret. 32, Stj. 74, Fms. viii. 88, Eg. 318, Alg. 372, Barl. 165:—gramm., Skálda 175: lengthening, Sks. 119.
2. adverb. phrases, til lengdar, long, for a long time; alls til lengdar, too long, Karl. 227; í bráð ok lengdar (mod. í bráð og lengd), for now and hereafter, Fms. vii. 88; þegar til lengdar lætr, in the long run; á-lengdar, afar off.
(lengr, lengst), adv. long, for a long time; of l., too long; lengr en skemr, rather long than short, for a good while; with gen., l. vetrar, for a great part of the winter.
adv., the compar. lengr is used in a temp. sense, lengra in a local sense, see langr; [Dan. længe]:—long, for a long time; lengi hefir mér þat í hug verit, Nj. 2; hversu lengi? 141; eigi lengi, Ld. 168; of lengi, too long; svá lengi sem, as long as, Rb. 64; ok eru þeir þá miklu lengst niðri, by far the longest time, id.; ok þolir eigi inni lengr, could no longer ‘thole’ or endure it, Fær. 269, passim; lengr en skemr, rather long than short, for a good while, Bs. i. 155; til þess at lengr en skemr frestaðisk þat níðingsverk, Al. 105: á-lengr (q. v.), hereafter: lengr er, until; lengr er lyriti er varit at lögbergi, K. Þ. K. (Kb.) i. 18; lengr er þeir hafa sýnt biskupi, 22: with gen., lengi vetrar, for a long part of the winter, Fbr. i. 334; lengi æfi, during a long part of one’s life, 224; lengi dags, lengi nætr, and so on.
f. lengthening; lífs l., maintenance of life.
f. lengthening, Fms. iii. 12; mála-lenging, prolongation.
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(-da, -dr), v. to lengthen (l. líf sitt); var lengt nafn hans, an addition was made to his name; hvat þarf þat l., what need to make a long story?; impers. to become longer (um vetrinn er daga lengdi).
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f. a long piece, strip.
1. d, [langr], to lengthen; var lengt nafn hans, there was added to his name, Fms. vi. 16; lengja líf sitt, i. 126; þarf eigi at lengja sögu um þat mál, it boots not to tell a long tale, xi. 9; lengja leið sína, Eg. 742; orð-lengja, to lengthen out words; hvat þarf þat lengja, what need to make a long story? Karl. 374, 427.
II. impers. to lengthen, esp. of days and seasons; um vetrinn er daga lengdi, Hrafn. 30; nótt (acc.) lengir.
III. reflex., e-m lengisk, to long after; sem þessir tveir vetr vóru liðnir þá þótti Jósaphat lengjask mjök, Barl. 198.
2. u, f. an oblong piece, Skíða R. 27; bak-lengja, q. v.
adv. compar. longer, farther; for a longer time.
see langr III. 2.
adv. superl. mostly, most of the time (hann var þó l. á Grjótá).
adv., see langr III. 2.
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f. Lent, in the words of John the Fleming, Nú er komin Lentin …, Ekki skilr fólkit hvat Lentin er, Bs. i. 801.
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f. [for. word; Lat. lancea], a lance, Edda (Gl.)
n. lion.
m. [for. word; Lat. leo], a lion, Fms. vii. 69, Fbr. 34, Nj. 143, Þiðr. 190, Stj. 71, 411, Plac.; this Lat. form is freq. in old writers; the prop. Icel. form is ljón, q. v.
n. lion.
n. a lion, Fb. i. 165, Fms. vii. 69, Stj. 71, 231, 459; ljóns í hvassar sjónir, Sighvat; yet the vellums hardly ever use the mod. spelling ljón, but léon:—the word is masc., Þiðr. 190, Pr. 402, 434. leóns-hvelpr, m. a lion’s whelp, Stj. 231.
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u, f. a lioness, Stj. 80.
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or leoparðr, m. [for. word], a leopard, Al. 167, Art.; the Icel. form is hlébarðr, q. v.
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pres. lep, lapti; part. lapit; [A. S. lapian; Engl. lap]:—to lap like a dog; this word seems not to occur in old writers, but is freq. in mod. usage and undoubtedly old.
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n. slashed clothes, Rétt. 40, 48.
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a, m. a monster, the husband of the ogress Grýla (q. v.), Maurer’s Volks.
(-s, -ar), m.
1) lock of hair (fá mér leppa tvá ór hári þínu);
2) rag, tatter (~ rotinn).
m. [cp. Engl. lump], a lock of hair; fá mér leppa tvá ór hári þínu, Nj. 116; hann skar ór lepp ór hári þess manns, Fas. i. 528; hann hafði ljósan lepp í hari sínu hinum vinstra megin, Hrafn. 13: ok tók ek einn lepp ór tagli hans, Fb. i. 354; miðla mér í mót lepp ór maga-skeggi þínu, Fms. vi. 141; the word is obsolete in this sense.
2. a rag, tatter, cp. Germ. lump; sem leppr rotinn, Bs. ii. 56; þá ina vánda leppa sem hann hafði, Fms. ii. 161; hverr leppr er upp brotinn í váru skipi, vi. 382: freq. in mod. usage, leppr or í-leppr, socks to wear in shoes; bak-leppr, the pad under a saddle.
COMPDS: leppaklæði, Leppalúði.
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u, f. [a Lat. word], leprosy, Fas. ii. 390; in mod. vulg. usage diarrhœa.
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u, f. a rag, piece of cloth.
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[cp. lara], in compds, sótt-lera, ætt-leri, q. v.
(að), v. to lace tight (hosur ~ðar at beini); fig., ~ðr, bruised, contused (l. af höggum).
að, [Scot. lerk], to lace tight; var höttrinn lerkaðr um hálsinn, Landn. 147; lerka ermar at öxl … drambhostir lerkaðar at beini, Fms. vi. 440: metaph. to chastise [cp. North. E. to lace], lerkandi sína sál, Mar.; hann lerkaði sinn líkam með föstum, Thom.:—part. lerkaðr, bruised, contused; blár ok lerkaðr af stórum höggum, Fas. iii. 357: in mod. usage feeling as if sore all over the body.
n. lesson (in divine service).
n. a lesson, in divine service: Þorláks söng ok les með, Vm. 35; at song ok lesi, 52; með lesi ok söng, Am. 43, 74; messu-söng ok les, Bs. i. 811.
COMPDS: lesbók, lesdjákn, leskór, lesskrá.
II. knitted wares, such as knitted gloves, drawers, socks, and the like, freq. in mod. usage; að endingu eg óska þér | að þú fair les og smér | í skattinn, Snót (1865) 330; prjón-les, knitted wares, socks, shirts, etc.
(les; las, lásum; lesinn), v.
1) to pick up, gather (l. hnetr, ber, aldin); l. saman, to gather, glean (l. saman axhelmur); l. upp, to pick up;
2) to grasp, catch (eldrinn las skjótt tróðviðinn); l. sik upp, to haul oneself up (hann las sik skjótt upp eptir øxarskaptinu);
3) to knit, embroider;
4) to read (l. á bók); l. fram, l. upp, to read aloud; l. um (of) e-n, to speak (evil) of one (l. fár um e-n).
pres. les; pret. las, last, las, pl. lásu; subj. læsi; imperat. les, lestu; part. lesinn: [Ulf. lisan = συλλέγειν, συνάγειν; A. S. lesan; provincial Engl. to lease; O. H. G. lesan; Germ. lesen; cp. Gr. λέγειν, Lat. legere]:—prop. to glean, gather, pick, Stj. 615; lesa hnetr, aldin, Gísl. (in a verse), Dropl. 5; lesa ber, to gather berries, K. Þ. K. 82; hafði hón lesit sér mikil ber til fæðslu, Bs. i. 204; lesa blóm, Art. 66:—lesa saman; verða nokkut vínber saman lesin af þyrnum? Matth. vii. 16; þvíat eigi lesa menn saman fíkjur af þyrnum ok eigi heldr vínber af þistlum, Luke vi. 44; lesit fyrst íllgresit saman, Matth. xiii. 30; þeir lásu saman manna um morguninn … þá hafði sá eigi meira er mikit hafði saman lesit, Stj. 292; þessir smáir articuli sem hér eru saman lesnir, Fb. iii. 237; saman lesa líf e-s, to compile, H. E. i. 584: þeir lásu upp (picked up) hálm þann allan, Mart. 123; tóku þeir silfrið ok lásu upp, Fms. viii. 143.
2. to grasp, catch; eldrinn las skjótt tróð-viðinn, Eg. 238: of a ship, þat má rétt heita Stígandi er svá less hafit, Fs. 28; bróðirinn less um herðar sér þann kaðals-hlutinn sem þeir höfðu haldit, grasped it, wound it round his shoulders, Mar. …
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a, m. a reader, one able to read; see above.
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a, m. a reader.
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n. [prob. from lesa I. 3], a kind of head-gear for women; typt klæðar, vævgin ok lesni (lesin) þat á dóttir, N. G. L. i. 211, cp. Js. 78: poët., lesnis stofn, the ‘stem’ of the lesni = the head, Landn. 152 (in a verse); lesnis land (lesni lands MS.), id., Leiðarv. 24.
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n. = lesni, D. N. iv. 328.
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f. reading, H. E. i. 475, Hom. 4.
f.
1) burden, cargo;
2) train of packhorses.
1. f. [cp. Engl. last, as in Orkneys and East Angl. ‘a last of herrings,’ and Old Engl. lastage = freight; Germ. last; Dan. læst], a last, burden, a measure of ship’s burden, reckoned at twelve ‘skippund,’ D. N. iv. 651, Bs. i. 545, Gþl. 371, B, K. 20, 89, MS. 732. 16 (where wrongly ten for twelve); lest gulls, Fms. xi. 351, where = talentum (?); lest járns, harðsteins, D. N.; lest síldar, N. G. L. passim: a cargo, Jb. 386. In mod. usage the tonnage of Dan. and Norse ships is counted by læster.
II. in Icel. sense, a caravan of loaded pack-horses, Grett. 119: plur. lestir, the market season in June and July.
COMPDS: lestamaðr, lestatal.
2. f. reading, a lesson; meðan lestin verðr lesin, Stat. 299, N. G. L. i. 390.
(-sta, -str), v. to injure, damage (l. skip sitt);
refl., ~st, to be injured, damaged (féll hann af baki ok lestist fótr hans).
t, [Lat. laedere, by Grimm’s law, t for d], to break up, injure, wreck; lesta skip, to wreck one’s ship, Eg. 159; lesta hús at lásum eða viði, Grág. ii. 110: impers. to be wrecked, ok lesti þar skipit, Fms. x. 158; þá er bæði (both ships) lesti Hjálp ok Fífu, Orkn. (in a verse).
2. metaph. to break, violate; lesta lög, Skálda (in a verse).
II. reflex. to be damaged; ef kirkja brennr upp ok lestisk, K. Þ. K. 42; bogi þeirra lestisk, 623. 31; þá lestisk ráin, Grett. 86; féll hann af baki ok lestisk fótr hans, Fb. i. 538; skip lestisk, Grág. ii. 268: part., ok lest (broken) svá skip hans at eigi væri fært, Fær. 116; hestr er lestr, haukr er daudr, Maurer’s Volks. 321.
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m. a driver of a lest.
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n. ‘the tale of læster,’ tonnage, Jb. 390.
I) adv., only in the phrase, á ~, last, at last.
II) from löstr, fault.
adv., only in the phrase, á lesti, at last; [cp. A. S. on laste; Germ. am letzten]; it occurs in old poetry, but rarely in prose, and is now obsolete; the explanation in Lex. Poët. deriving it from löstr (a crime) is erroneous:
1. in poetry; Jórdan er á lesti, Edda (Gl.), Hallfred (Fs. 206. 5); hann gékk fyrstr í hildi en ór á lesti, he went first into battle and last out of it, Sighvat, Korm. 128 (in a verse); fýstisk sunnan | Sigurðr á lesti, Mork. 217:—at lesti = á lesti, Lil. 20, Grett. (in a verse); the Am. 63 is corrupt, perhaps = litu er lýsti.
2. in prose; en fyrir þat munu vér láta fé várt ok frændr ok sjálfa oss á lesti, Bret. 36; trúa hófsk á Gyðinga-landi, ok mun þangat koma á lesti, 625. 189; fyrst at upphafi í kenningu sinni, síðan í jartegna-görð, ok í lífláti á lesti, 655 xiii A. 27; hón var nunna á Íslandi ok einsetu-kona á lesti, Ld. 338, (vellum Arna-Magn. 309), Hom. (St.) 55; ef þú vill eigi þenna kost, þá muntú mæta kvölum á (ok MS.) lesti, 625. 74; ok gaf hann henni á lesti son sinn níu vetra gamlan, Ó. T. 15; ok á lesti hellti hann út sínu bana-blóði, 40.
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m. a breaker, wrecker, Lex. Poët.
m. and f. reading.
f. a lesson, portion for reading; Kristr mælti sjálfr enn í þeirri helgu lestr, Hom. 63; svá sem heilagr páfi Leo segir í lestinni, 671 B. 3.
II. in mod. usage, lestr, m., gen. lestrar and lestri, reading; gékk lestrinn seint ok tregliga, Bs. i. 155; gékk fram lestrinn djákna, 871, freq. in mod. usage:—home-service = húslestr, q. v.; vera við lestr, heyra lestr, to attend to a lestr; fyrir lestr, in the forenoon; eptir lestr, in the afternoon on Sundays, see húslestr.
COMPDS: lestrarkver, lestrbók, lestrarkór.
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m. = leskór, Bs. i. 823 (885).
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n., -bók, f. a reading-book.
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f. = lesbók, Am. 5.
m. agent, manager.
a, m. a ‘caravan-driver,’ a steward, Sturl. i. 74; sendimaðr eða lestreki, iii. 128, Bs. i. 848, 872.
f. lesson-book.
f. a lesson-book, Vm. 52, 55, Dipl. v. 18.
m. reading clerk.
m. a reading clerk, Bs. ii. 11, Th. 76.
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m. a reading gallery or choir, Mar.
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f. = lesbók, Jm. 11.
f. sloth, laziness.
f. [latr], laziness, sloth, Hom. 26, Sks. 2; leti at rita, Bs. i. 137, passim.
COMPDS: letifullr, letisvefn.
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a, m. a lazy person.
a. slovenly.
adj. slovenly, Mar.
m. sleep of sloth.
m. a sleep of sloth, Bs. ii. 91.
(let; latta, lóttum; lattr), v. to hold back, dissuade (one from something), l. e-n e-s (Björn latti ferðar; konungr fór eigi at síðr);
refl., ~st, to become loth, unwilling (þrællinn tók at l. mjök á starfanum).
pres. let; pret. latti; subj. letti; part. lattr; with neg. suff. pres. reflex. leti-a, Skv. 3. 44; letsk-a-ðu, Ls. 47 (Bugge, see the foot-note): [A. S. latjan; Old Engl. let (to hinder)]:—to hold back, dissuade, with acc. of the person, gen. of the thing; hvetið mik eða letið mik, Bkv. 14, Vþm. 2, Am. 29, 46, Skv. 3. 41; fýstu sumir, en sumir löttu, Eg. 242; fieiri löttu, ok kölluðu þat ráð at …, Ó. H. 145, Fs. 108, Gkv. 1. 2; sumir aflöttu fyrir konungi, Fms. ix. 370; sumir löttu fyrir-sátinnar, Sturl. i. 36; aðrir góðir menn löttu fyrirsátar, 38; Björn latti ferðar, Ó. H. 174; heldr löttu þeir þess, ok kváðu slíkt ekki kvenna ferð, Ld. 240; um várit vill Leifr í hernað en Ingólfr latti þess, Fs. 121; hann latti þá (dissuaded them) at vera með konungi, Gullþ. 5; mun ek þat eigi göra, af ek sé ek fæ eigi latt, Ld. 238.
II. reflex. to be let or hindered, slacken, desist; hví né letskaðú, Loki, Ls.; eigi mun ek letjask láta nema þú sér eptir, Eg. 257, Boll. 346; en þá ætla ek, at þú letisk meirr fyrir sakir hræðslu en hollostu við konung, Ó. H. 145; þrællinn tók at letjask mjök á starfanum, Grett. 148; herr lattisk at ganga, they did not go, could not do it, Glúm. …
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n. letters, writing.
n. [from Lat. litera], letters; í framflutning máls ok letri, Skálda 181; til letrs ok bóka-gerðar, Bs. i. 790: type, letters, characters, Latínu-letr, Latin letters; sett-letr, múnka-letr, ‘monks’-letters’ = black-letter; höfða-letr = the angular letters found in inscriptions on old tombstones; Rúna-letr, Runic letters; galdra-letr, magical characters:—a letter, writ, Jm. 19. letrs-háttr, m. a mode of writing, alphabet, Skálda 160.
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að, to put into letters.
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f. writing, Stj. 379.
f. art of writing.
f. the art of writing, Skálda 160.
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n. dissuasion, Bs. i. 142.
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að (?), [lauðr or löðr], to wash; leyðra borðker or bjórker, to wash the dishes, Em. 1.
(-ða, -ðr), v.
1) to give leave to, allow, permit (leyfi þér honum at fara sem honum gegnir bezt);
2) to praise (at kveldi skal dag ~).
ð, [lof; Germ. er-lauben]:
I. to permit, allow; ley fa e-m e-t, leyfi þér honum at fara sem honum gegnir bezt, Nj. 10; var leyft at gefa upp gamal-menni, Fms. ii. 225; villtú leyfa nökkurum mönnum útgöngu, Nj. 200, passim in old and mod. usage.
II. to praise, with acc.; leyfa is the older, lofa (q. v.) the later form; leyfa freq. occurs in old poets, Hm. 81, 91, Gh. 4 (Mm. 5), Fms. i. 182 (in a verse), xi. 215 (in a verse), Ó. H. 173, Edda 65 (in a verse): in prose—þá er ek leyfi Ólaf konung ok svá háttu hans, Fms. v. 327; lítt er þessi maðr leyfðr fyrir oss, vi. 108; þó er hann mjök leyfðr af mörgum mönnum, Bs. i. 480: the phrase, eiga fótum fjör at leyfa (mod. fjör at launa), O. H. L. 6; but esp. freq. in poetry is the part, leyfðr = famed, glorious, passim, see Lex. Poët.
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f. praise, Ó. H. 24 (in a verse).
n. leave, permission.
n. [Engl. leave], leave, permission, Fms. ii. 79, viii. 271, K. Á. 176, Sks. 59, Bs. i. 500; lof eða leyfi, Fb. ii. 266; taka leyfi af e-m, to take leave, Flóv. 32, Str. 64: of poetical licence, Edda 120, 124.
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n. adj. without leave, Jb. 398.
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m. a ‘leave-day,’ holiday, K. Þ. K. 120.
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adv. by leave, with permission, Mar., H. E. i. 470.
a. permitted, allowed.
adj. permitted, allowed, Fs. 23.
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in., gen. leygjar and leygs, [akin to logi], a lowe, fire, flame, freq. in old poetry, singly as well as in compds, but never used in prose; esp. freq. in poët. circumlocutions of gold and weapons; báru-leygr, the waves’ beam = gold; arm-leygr, the flasb of the arm = a bracelet; und-leygr, the flash of a wound, of blood, of Odin, etc. = a weapon, see Lex. Poët. leyg-för, f. a fire (Lat. incendium), Fms. ix. 533 (in a verse).
(-da, -dr), v.
1) to hide, conceal; l. e-n e-u, to hide, conceal a thing from one;
2) refl., ~st, to hide oneself, be concealed; l. at e-m, to steal upon a person, attack by stealth; l. í brott, to steal away.
d, [laun; Scot. layne], to hide, conceal, absol. or with dat. of the thing; var leynt nafni hans, Ld. 296, Grág. i. 125, Ísl. ii. 251, Ld. 296.
2. with dat. of the thing, acc. of the person; leyna e-n e-u, to hide a thing from one, Og. 27, Nj. 23, Grig, i. 370, Fms. viii. 12; öld leynig því aldri, Sighvat, Ó. H. 119: with acc. of the thing, less correct, Str. 31, 50, D. N. iv. 546.
II. reflex. to hide oneself; leynisk hann nú Norðmanna-konungr, Fms. i. 44, Sks. 605:—leynask í brott, to steal away, Eg. 572, Fb. ii. 367: or absol., í því ætlar bóndi at leynask út í myrkrit, Eg. 240:—leynask at e-m, to steal upon a person, attack by stealth, Grett. 149 A.
2. part. leynandi = lendr, in the phrase, með leynanda löstum, with hidden flaws, N. G. L. i. 25, 29: leyndr, part. pass, secret, hidden; e-t ferr leynt, goes by stealth, in secrecy, Eg. 28; leynd mál, secrets, Grág. i. 362; fór þat eigi leynt, it was not hidden, Fb. ii. 271.
f. secrecy, concealment, hiding; með l., af l., secretly.
f. secrecy, hiding; til leyndar, Fms. x. 383, Sks. 365; með leynd, secretly, Stj. 200, Rd. 235, Ísl. ii. 199, Fms. x. 380, passim; leyndar-bréf, -erendi, a secret letter, secret errand, viii. 128, ix. 341, Stj. 383.
COMPDS: leyndardómr, leyndarkofi, leyndarlimr, leyndarmál, leyndarnef, leyndarstaðr, leyndartal.
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m. a mystery, N. T., Vídal., Pass.
m. closet.
a, m. a closet, Bs. i. 253.
m. the privy member.
m. the hidden limb, genitalia, Stj. 21.
n. secret affair, a secret.
n. a secret affair, Fms. i. 54, viii. 342, Sks. 341.
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n. a hidden person, N. G. L. i. 200.
m. hiding place.
m. a hidden place, Sturl. ii. 151.
n. secret talk (eiga ~ við e-n).
n. secret talk, Fms. x. 262, 320.
n. hiding-place.
n. a hiding-place, esp. in pl., 623. 3: sing., leita sér leynis, Nj. 267; í leyni e-u, Korm. 144: í leyni = í leynd.
COMPDS: leynibragð, leynidyrr, leynifjörðr, leynigata, leynigröf, leynihérað, leynikofi, leynistigr, leynivágr, leynivegr.
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m. a hollow way; skal ráða lækr fyrir ofan hól er fellr ór leyningum, upp á fjall ok fram í á, Dipl. iv. 1: a local name, Rd. 276.
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adj. hiding; l. af kröptum sínum, 625. 83.
n. secret plot.
n. a secret plot, Fms. v. 257.
f. pl. secret door.
n. pl. secret doors, Nj. 198 (v. l.), Anal. 186.
m. hidden fjord.
m. a hidden fjord, Fas.
f. secret path.
u, f. a secret path, Sól. 23.
f. hidden pit.
f. a hidden pit, Ísl. ii. 74.
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n. a secluded county, Róm. 260.
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a, m. a secret closet, Mar.
adv. secretly.
adv. secretly, Nj. 5, Gþl. 63, 65.
a. hidden, secret.
adj. hidden, secret, 625. 190, Fms. x. 269, N. G. L. iii. 5.
m. = leynigata.
m. a hidden path, Ísl. ii. 44, Al. 89.
m. hidden creek.
m. a hidden creek, Nj. 280, Fs. 112, Eg. 374, O. H. L. 2, 36.
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u. f. (spelt lôra, Edda ii. 464, 547), [cp. Dan. kukke-lure and Scot. lowry = a fox]:—a sneaking, worthless person, mann-læra; læðist kisu-lóra (the naughty pass sneaks) latir í endann klóra, Hallgr.
(-ta, -tr), v
1) to loose, loosen, untie, undo (tók Skrýmir ok leysti nest-bagga sinn); l. knút, to undo a knot;
2) impers. is dissolved, breaks up (skipit leysi undir þeim); snjó, ís leysir, the snow thaws, the ice breaks up; árnar (vötn) leysir or ísa leysir af vötnum, the ice breaks up on the rivers;
3) to absolve (biskup sagðist eigi mega leyas þá);
4) to free, set free, release (l. e-n ór ánauð, af þræildómi);
5) to discharge, pay (bœndr hetu jarli stórfé at l. þat gjald, er á var kveðit);
6) l. or l. af hendi, to perform, do (vel hefir þú leyst þitt erendi);
7) to redeem, purchase (vil ek l. landit til mín);
8) to solve (a difficulty); hann leysti hvers manns vandræði, he helped every man in distress;
9) to send away, dismiss (Oddr leysir menn þaðan með góðum gjöfum);
10) to get rid of, dispatch (seint sœkist várum félaga at l. þenna úkunna mann);
11) with preps. and advs., l. e-n brott, to dismiss (leysti Ásmundr hann brott með góðum gjöfum); l. e-n frá e-u, to rid one of a thing; l. ór e-u, to solve, explain, answer (K. leysti ór því öllu froðliga, sem hann spurði); l. …
t, [lauss; Ulf. lausjan = δύειν; A. S. losjan; Engl. loosen; Germ. lösen]:—to loosen, untie, Edda 29, Eg. 223, Fms. vii. 123; leysa skúa, 656. 2: the phrase, þó mun einn endi leystr vera um þetta mál, it will all be untied, end in one way, Gísl. 82, cp. Korm. (in a verse); leysa til sekkja, to untie, open the sacks, Stj. 216; leysa til sárs, to unbind a wound, Bs. ii. 180; leysa sundr, to tear asunder, Grett. 115.
2. impers. it is dissolved, breaks up; þat veðr gerði mánudaginn, at skipit (acc.) leysti (was dissolved) undir þeim, hljópu menn þá í bát, Sturl. iii. 106; sum (skip, acc.) leysti í hafi undir mönnum, were wrecked, broken up, Bs. i. 30; bein (acc.) leysti ór höfði henni, 196; leysti fót undan Jóni, Sturl. iii. 116:—of ice, snow, to thaw, þá er vár kom ok snæ leysti ok ísa, Eg. 77; kom þeyr mikill, hlupu vötn fram, ok leysti árnar, the ice broke up on the rivers, Sturl. iii. 45; þegar ísa leysir af vötnum, Fms. iv. 142; áin var leyst (thawed, open) með lönduni, en íss flaut á henni miðri, Boll. 358; vötn (acc.) mun ok skjótt leysa, Fbr. 12 new Ed.
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f. loosening, Skálda 203: a thawing, melting of ice and snow, Fas. ii. 407.
(gen. -ja), m. freedman.
a, m., also lausingi, leysingr, m., esp. in gen. leysings, N. G. L. i. 29, 33, 36, 49, 238, 345, Grág. i. 185, Jb. 6:—a freedman, Lat. libertus; þræls morð eða leysings, Jb. l. c., Grág. i. 184, 185, 265, 266, Eb. 166, Eg. 740, Ld. 12, 100, Landn. 111, 112, Nj. 59, Fb. i. 538, Fms. i. 114. leysings-eyrir, m. a freedman’s fee, to be paid to his master to the amount of six ounces, N. G. L. i. 36, 39.
II. a landlouper; harm var náliga lausingi einn félauss, Ld. 38: = lausamaðr.
f. freedwoman.
u, f. a freed-woman, Grág. i. 184, 185, N. G. L. i. 33.
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n. part., see hleyti.
I) (dat. and acc. ljá; pl. ljár), m. scythe (þeir hjuggust með ljám).
II) from ljá.
m., with the article léinn, Fms. vii. 264; acc. sing. lia, Korm. 38; ljáinn, Fb. i. 522; plur. learnir, Edda 48; dat. lianum (ljánum), id.; acc. pl. lia (= ljá), id.: the mod. form is nom. ljár, gen. ljás, dat. and acc. ljá; the nom. ljár occurs in Fb. i. 522: [North. E. ley, lea; Dan. lee; Swed. lia]:—a scythe; hinn deigi lé, Mkv.; hvass lé, Flóv. 25; stæltr lé, Grág. i. 501; dengja ljá, ii. 211; orb ok nýjan ljá, Fb. i. 522; ljá í langorfi, Korm. 38; stafn-ljá (dat.), an entering hook, Fms. vii. 264.
COMPDS: lédengd, lédenging, légarðr.
n.
1) fief, fee (halda lönd ok lén af konungi);
2) royal grant or emolument;
3) royal revenue;
4) share of good things (sumir hafa lítit lén eða lof).
n., mod. also léni, [Dan. len; Germ. lehen], a fief, fee; taka land í lén, Fms. i. 22, iv. 212; halda lönd ok lén af konungi, 232; hann hafði í lén hálfar Færeyjar af Haraldi Gráfeld, ii. 91; þat lén sem hann veitir mér, Gþl. 63 (in an oath of homage); Herra Knútr hafði þá hálft Rygja-fylki ok Sogn hálfan, ok þótti honum þat lén minna en hann vildi, Fms. ix. 428, x. 116; beiðask léns yfir fylki, Fagrsk. 7; þar sem lendr maðr hefir lén, N. G. L. ii. 407:—a royal grant or emolument, bæði um skyldir ok útgerðir ok mörg önnur lén, Fms. vi. 339; hann heitr yðr í mót miklu léni ok trausti, viii. 204; hann gaf honum mikit lén ok land í sínu ríki, O. H. L. 18; hann hafði veitt honum mikit lén, ok gefit honum dýrligar gjafir, 68; skyldu ok þeir sem lénin höfðu missa þeirra, ef þeir flytti eigi þessi bréf, Bs. i. 764:—royal revenue, þitt ríki liggr undir úfriði, ok tekr þú eigi af þvílíkt lén sem þú ættir at hafa, O. H. L. 30:—an office, umboðs-lén, D. N. v. 417; sá konungs umboðs-maðr sem þar hefir lén, N. G. L. ii. 280.
II. metaph. the good things of this life; sumir hafa lítið lén eðr lof, Edda 11. léns-maðr, m. …
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f. pad or cushion which is placed under a pack-saddle.
1. u, f. to grant, Vígl. 31.
2. u, f. [cp. Germ. lehne; Engl. to lean]:—the pad or cushion laid under the pack-saddle; hann tók tvá hesta ok lagði á lénur (mod. reiðing), Nj. 74; kómu þeir til hesta sinna, ok er þeir vildu lénur á þá leggja, Bs. i. 389; vóru lagðir út vöru-sekkar nokkurir á hlaðit, ok þar lénur með, Ísl. ii. 204.
3. að, to saddle; Bileam lénaði ösnu sína, Stj. 334.
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n. [le], a scythe, steel and iron welded together in a forge; gæta þarf líka að því, meðan verið er að slá lénið, að …, Árm. á Alþ. iv. 119.
n. linen, linen cloth.
n. [Dan. lærred; prob. a compd. qs. lé-ript = soft raiment]:—linen, a linen cloth, K. Þ. K. 20, Grág. i. 213, Sks. 287, Fms. vi. 348, Fs. 147: also in plur., vera at léreptum, to be at one’s linen, of a lady, 161; lérept is opp. to vaðmál, K. Þ. K. (Kb.) 8. lérepts-dúkr, -hökull, m. a linen cloth or cope, Vm. 53, 114.
(-tta, -ttr), v.
1) with acc. to lighten (l. skipin);
2) with dat. to lift (þá létti köttrinn einum fœti);
3) l. e-u, to desist from, leave off; l. ferð sinni, to stop one’s journey, to halt; also absol., þeir léttu eigi (they stopped not, halted not) fyrr en þeir kómu í Skaptártungur; l. af e-u, l. af at gøra e-t, to leave off doing, give up (hann léttir aldregi af slíkt at vinna); l. af hernaði, to leave off freebooting; l. undan, to withdraw, retreat (svá kom því máli, at Sigvaldi létti undan);
4) to relieve, ease (hann létti hans meini með mikilli íþrótt);
5) impers., e-m léttir, one is relieved, eased (of pain, illness); sótt (dat.) léttir, léttir af sóttinni, the illness (fever) abates; with the person in dat., the illness in gen. honum létti brátt sóttarinnar, he soon recovered from the illness; l. upp, to clear up, abate, esp. of the weather; storminum (hríðinni) léttir upp, the storm (snowstorm) abates;
6) refl., ~st, to be lightened, cleared, of the sky (hinn syðri hlutr léttist); impers., e-m léttist = e-m léttir, one is relieved, eased (léttist honum heldr, ok var á fótum þrjá daga). …
t:
I. with acc. to lighten; hann bað létta skipin, Sturl. iii. 62; þeir köstuðu farminum ok léttu skipin, 656 C. 52.
II. with dat.:
1. to lift; þá létti köttrinn einum fæti, Edda 33.
2. to alight from; létta ferð sinni, þeir léttu eigi fyrr ferð sinni en þeir kómu norðr til Þórólfs, Eg. 76, 106; léttu eigi ferð sinni fyrr, en …, Nj. 61, Fms. i. 72; and absolutely, to stop, halt; þeir léttu eigi (stopped not, halted not) fyrr en þeir kómu í Skaptár-tungur, Nj. 261; er nú mál at létta þessum leik, Fms. xi. 96; l. hernaði, Fær. 99:—létta af e-u, or letta af at göra e-t, to leave off doing, cease doing, give up; hann léttir aldregi af slíkt at vinna, Fb. ii. 391; létta af áleitni við e-n, Fms. vi. 209; létta af at drekka vín, Stj. 428; ef hann léttir af at leita okkar, Bs. i. 228; at aflétta ranglætum, Mar.; létta af hernaði, to leave off freebooting, Fms. i. 30; létta af kvámum, ii. 13; bað þá létta af at drepa menn, Eg. 92: absol., sem þeir léttu at berja hann, D. N. iv. 90: with prepp., létta á e-t, to check, stop, make alight; verðr nú at létta á ofan-förna hennar, Ísl. …
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n. cheerful look (gøra á sér ~).
n. cheerfulness, Stnri. iii. 196.
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m. an errand-boy,
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u, f. a midwife, Thom. 482.
f. child-labour.
f. child-labour, Mar. 976.
m.
1) alleviation, relief, ease;
2) readiness; af létta, readily, without reserve (hann sagði allt af létta).
a, m. alleviation, relief, easing; e-m til létta, Karl. 207, Mag. 160; Bósi kveðsk vænta mikils létta af konungi, Fas. iii. 200, Bs. ii. 81; engir þeir sem upp höfðu gefit sinn part vildu nokkurn létta undir leggja, they would lend no help, Grett. 153.
2. the pulley above the bed of a sick person is called létti.
3. in the adverb. phrase, af létta, outright, plainly, Germ. frischweg; Grettir spurði at tíðendum, en Barði segir af létta slík sem vóru, Grett. 73 new Ed.; spyrr hón hann af stórvirkjum sínum, en hann sagði allt af létta, Fb. i. 278; sætt vara gör með létta, not straight, Eb. (in a verse).
COMPDS: léttibyrðingr, léttadrengr, léttimöttull, léttiskip, léttivinátta.
m. alleviation, relief.
m. alleviation, relief.
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= leytismaðr (or hleytismaðr), a vicar, Post. 34.
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n. a light boat, Fms. xi. 430.
m. light mantle.
m. a light mantle, Fagrsk. 182.
n. a light, fleet ship.
n. and létti-skúta, u, f. a light, fleet ship, Eg. 261, Fms. vii. 259, viii. 137, ix. 285, Hkr. i. 279.
f. good friendship.
u, f. a slight, superficial friendship, Sturl. iii. 291.
a.
1) light, opp. to þungr;
2) active, nimble (l. á sér); vera á léttasta skeiði, to be at one’s most active age; ek em nú af léttasta skeiði, I am past my best years;
3) unencumbered, free; verða léttari (at barni), to be delivered of a child; e-m verðr harms síns léttara, one is eased of one’s grief;
4) light, easy (mœddist hann fyrir þeim ok gekk þeim léttara); var veðr létt, the wind was light;
5) cheerful, gladsome (var konungr þá l. í öllum rœðum); e-m segir eigi létt hugr um e-t, one has apprehensions;
6) of small value; leggja e-t í léttan stað, to think lightly of.
adj., léttari, léttastr, [cp. Ulf. leihts = ἐλαφρία, 2 Cor. i. 17; A. S. leoht; Engl. light; O. H. G. lihti; Germ. leicht; Dan. let; Swed. lätt; cp. Lat. levis; Gr. ἐ-λαφ-ρός]:—light, of weight; bjórtunnu eða annað eigi léttara. Bs. i. 389.
2. of the body; manna fimastr ok léttastr á sér, Fms. x. 73; vera á léttasta skeiði (aldri), to be at one’s most active age; þá er Haraldr var á léttasta skeiði aldrs, Eg. 536, Ó. H. 68; ek em nú af léttasta skeiði, ok ekki til slíks færr, I have passed my best years, Háv. 40:—the phrase, verða léttari, to give birth, ‘to be lightened of the womb,’ Spenser, (ú-létt = heavy with child); ok nu líða stundir fram lil þess er hón verðr léttari, ok fæðir hón sveinbarn, Fms. xi. 53, Nj. 91, Ísl. ii. 11), Ó. H. 144, Fs. 143, 190; verða léttari barns (= at barni), N. G. L. i. 131.
II. metaph. light, easy; mæddisk hann fyrir þeim ok gékk þeim léttara, Eg. 192; þvíat þat kann henda at mönnum verðr harms síns léttara ef um er talat, Fms. vii. 105:—light, of wind, var veðr létt ok segltækt, 286; hann siglir út léttan land-nyrðing, Ld. …
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a. of cheerful look.
adj. ‘light-browed,’ fair-complexioned, Gullþ. 9, Ld. 48, 94; spelt
a. of cheerful look.
Grett. 160 new Ed.
pp. lightly clad.
part. lightly-clad, Stj. 240, Gullþ. 8.
a. easy to bear.
adj. easy to bear, 625. 72, Bs. i. 105, 236.
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a, m. ‘light-pacer,’ name of a horse, Edda, Gm.
a. swift, fleet-winged.
adj. fleet-winged, Sks.
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f. alertness, Mar.
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adj. nimble, fleet, Rb. 334, Þiðr. 343, Korm. (in a verse).
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adj. light-footed, fleet.
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adj. light-handed.
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n. part.; e-m verð l., to chatter, Fms. xi. 234.
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part. light-laden, Fms. ii. 188.
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adj. light-minded, Sks. 24.
pp. lightly clad.
part. lightly-clad, Hkr. iii. 281.
a. affable; light-mannered.
adj. light-hearted, cheerful, Sks. 24, Fms. vii. 175, viii. 447, ix. 4.
m. lightness, agility.
m. (-leiki, a, m.), lightness, agility, alertness. Sks. 620, Fas. iii. 237, Lil. 17.
adv.
1) lightly;
2) easily
3) cheerfully, readily (taka e-u ~).
adv. lightly, easily, Fms. i. 85, viii. 78, Stj. 17: civilly, Stj. 209, Barl. 119: lightly, of dress, Ld. 46: readily, Eg. 200: may be, perhaps, Stj.; léttliga hvergi, 16, 24, 35, 112; léttliga at, may be that, 47, 59, 106, 122, 126, 159, 400, Fb. i. 376.
a. light.
adj. lightly, light, Bs. ii. 160.
a. living an easy life (e-m er léttlíft).
adj. ‘light-lived,’ living an easy life, N. G. L. ii. 444, Mag. 90.
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n. an easy temper.
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adj. easy-tempered.
n. affability, friendliness (cf. léttlátr).
n. a light life; léttlætis-kona, a harlot, Stj. 350, Fms. vii. 241, Str. 9.
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n. a poor diet.
pp. spoken with ease.
part. light-spoken, light-tongued, Fms. vii. 227.
f. light-heartedness.
f. light-heartedness, Fms. vi. 287: mod. levity, frivolity.
a. light-hearted.
adj. light-minded, Fms. ii. 20, xi. 5: light, thoughtless.
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part. slight of figure, slender, Hem.
a.; e-m er léttvígt, one finds it easy to fight.
adj. prone to fight, Eb. 43 new Ed.
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f. levity, Barl. 148.
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adj. light-weighted, of little value.
n. infant, baby.
n. an infant, Hkr. i. 35, Fas. ii. 115.
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f. (or
f. scythe-sharpening.
f., Jb. 218), the hammering, sharpening a scythe, Grág. ii. 338; see dengja.
m. swath.
m. a swathe, Finnb. 340.
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adj. (-liga, adv.), vile, of little worth; this word does not occur in old writers; the etym. is dubious, cp. lémagna, lébarn, etc.
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adj., mod. lé-magna, indecl. faint, exhausted; lémegit ljós, a faint light, Stj. 16.
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m. a tanned shark-skin, Ísl. ii. 113.
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n. turf cut with a scythe; kirkja á þrjá tigu létorfs á Vestr-holtum, Vm. 29.
f. a turf cut with a scythe.
u, f. a turf or sod cut with a scythe, for roofing or the like; létorfna-skurðr, Vm. 140; varrar hans vóru sem létorfur, Fas. ii. 518.
I)
n.
1) host, folk, people;
fyrða l., the people;
þeir vóru allir eins liðs, they were all of one party;
vera einn sins liðs, to be alone;
2) family, household (lið mitt er heima bjarglaust);
3) troops, host;
samna liði, to gather troops;
4) aid, assistance;
veita e-m lið, to aid;
koma e-m at liði, to come to one’s assistance.
II)
n. poet.
1) ale (cf. líð);
2) ship.
n. [cp. líða], a host, folk, people; lið heitir mannfólk, Edda 110; fyrða lið, the people, Hm. 160; sjaldan hittir leiðr í lið, 65; Dvalins lið, the dwarf people, Vsp. 14; þrír ór því liði, 17; Ásgrímr bauð því öllu liði til sín, Nj. 209; týndisk mestr hluti liðs þess er þar var inni, Eg. 240; þeir brenndu bæinn ok lið þat allt er inni var, Fms. i. 12; gékk liðit sveitum mjök, the people were much divided, Clem. 43; liðit rann ór þorpinu á landit þegar er þat varð vart við herinn, Eg. 528; ef þeir hafa eigi lið (crew) til brott at halda, Grág. i. 92; allt lið várt trúir, all our people trow, 656 C. 20; yfir öllu Kristnu liði, 623. 58:—a family, household, hélzk vinátta með þeim Gunnari ok Njáli, þótt fátt væri medal annars liðsins, Nj. 66; hafði hann þá ekki færa lið með sér enn ena fyrri vetr, Eg. 77; konungrinn bað mart lið þangat koma, ok svá Ifigeníu með lið sitt, 656 A. ii. 15; þeir vóru allir eins liðs, all of one party, Eg. 341; samir oss betr at vera eins liðs en berjask, Fs. 15:—a troop, herd, Freyfaxi gengr í dalnum fram með liði sínu, Hrafn. 6; hann (the wild boar) hafði mart lið með sér, Fms. iv. 57; þá rennr þar galti með lið sitt, Fb. …
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(lið; leið, liðum; liðinn), v.
1) to go, pass, glide (er skipit leið fram hjá flotanum);
~ e-m ór hug, to pass out of one’s memory;
2) to pass by, go past (er þeir liðu nesit);
impers., en er líðr Euphrates á (acc.), when one has passed the E.;
sem leið jóladaginn, as the Yule-day passed;
þá (or þegar) er e-n líðr, when a person is omitted, passed over;
Úlfr jarl var ríkastr í Danmörku, þegar er konung leið, next to the king;
3) to pass away, elapse, of time (eigi munu margir vetur ~ áðr en þér munuð þessa iðrast);
at liðnum vetri, when the winter had passed;
liðinn, dead, deceased;
at liðinn fylki, after my lord’s death;
4) impers. with dat., nú líðr, svá dögum, at, the days draw on;
þá var liðit degi, the day was far spent;
5) to go on, take place;
ek vil vita, hvat þeim líðr, how they are getting on;
ok sér, hvat leið drykkinum, and sees, how it had gone with his drinking;
6) with preps. and advs.:
~ af e-u, to depart from;
~ af heimi, to depart this life;
~ af, to pass away (líðr af vetrinn = líðr fram vetrinn);
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að, [liðr], to arrange; þá skal biskup með þeim hætti liða lausnina, H. E. i. 243: to dismember, liða sundr or sundr-liða, and metaph. to expound [cp. ‘to divide,’ ὀρθοτομειν, N. T.]; ó-liðaðr, unexplained, Hom. (St.) 87.
II. reflex. liðask, to fall in curls, of hair; hárit ljósjarpt ok liðaðisk vel, Fb. iii. 246; gult hár ok liðaðisk allt á herðar niðr, Ld. 272, Þiðr. 174.
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f, exposition, Hom. (St.) 51.
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adj. without joints.
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n. pl. the joints.
m.
1) follower (liðar þat eru fylgðarmenn);
2) levy-district.
a, m. [lið], a follower; liðar þat eru fylgðar-menn, Edda 107; Eysteins, Þorkels, Háreks, Valþjófs liðar, the men of Eystein …, Walthiof, Fas. ii. 50 (in a vtrse), Fms. v. 222 (in a verse), Lex. Poët.; Búa-liðar, the men of Bui, Fms. xi. 140; Langbarðs liðar, the Lombard people, Gkv. 2. 19; Ás-liðar, the Ases, Skm. 34; hans liðar, his men. Fas. ii. 315 (in a verse); fjándinn ok hans liðar, Hom. (St.) 77; ek ok mínir liðar, Ó. H. 243.
II. a traveller, esp. a sailor, [cp. A. S. liða; and lið = a ship, liðsmenn = sailors]; in vetr-liði, a winter-sailor; sumar-liði, a summer-sailor.
III. in a local sense, a district, in regard to the levy; hann lagði á bændr leiðangr, at ór hverjum liða skyldi gera mann ok um fram pund ok naut, Fms. viii. 395, D. N. ii. 614, 624. liða-gjald, n. the levied tax (from liði = a sailor), Fms. viii. 327, 419.
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að, [liðugr], to make smooth and easy.
(gen. -ar; pl. -ir, acc. -u), m.
1) joint of the body (lið kalla menn þat á manni, er leggir mætast); fótrinn stökk or liði, the foot went out of joint; fœra (fót) í lið, to set in joint again;
2) hann var fölleitr ok l. á nefi, he was pale-looking and hook-nosed;
3) degree (of kindred), generation.
m., gen. liðar and liðs, pl. liðir, acc. liðu, [Ulf. liþus = μέλος; A. S. lið; Scot. lith; Old Engl. (Chaucer) lith; O. H. G. lit; Germ. glied; Dan. led]:—a joint, of the body; lið kalla menn þat á manni er leggir mætask, Edda 110; á liðu, Hm. 137; ok of liðu spenna, Sdm. 9; ok lemða alla í liðu, Ls. 43; lykja e-n liðum, to make one’s joints stijf, Hm. 114: the allit. phrase, leggr og liðr, skalf á honum leggr ok liðr, he shivered all over the body, Fbr. 89 new Ed.; fótrinn stökk ór liði, the foot went out of joint, Ísl. ii. 246; færa í lið, to put into joint, Gullþ.; okkrir limir ok liðir, Ísl. ii. 201; þat er liðum loðir saman, N. G. L. i. 345:—poët., liðar eldr, hyrr, ‘lith-flame,’ poët. gold, Lex. Poët; liðar-hangi, a ‘lith-loop,’ bracelet, Eb. (in a verse); liðs snær, svell, ‘joint-snow,’ ‘joint-ice,’ = gold, silver, Lex. Poët.
2. metaph. a degree in a lineage; at fimmta kné ok fimta lið, N. G. L. i. 15; ætt-liðr, freq. in mod. usage.
3. of the nose; liðr á nefi, Ld. 272, Nj. 39, Þiðr. 178: úlf-liðr, the wrht; háls-liðr, hryggjar-liðr, ökla-liðr, fót-liðr. …
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(cp. A. S. lið-man = a sailor), the surname of a mythical king, Sturl. i. 23, Fas. ii. 154.
m. forces, troops.
a, m. forces, troops, Fms. iii. 203, vii. 207.
m. giving help, assistance.
a, m. the giving help, Lv. 105.
f. prayer for help.
f. a prayer for help, Lv. 105.
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f. = liðsþurft, Fms. viii. 140, Hkr. iii. 340.
m. assembling troops.
m. an assembling troops, Ísl. ii. 171, Sturl. i. 87: open hostility, þá var mikill liðsdráttr með sonum Ófeigs at eptirmáli, Grett. 87.
m. greathost.
a, m. a great host, Fms. vii. 326, Orkn. 108, Bs. i. 763, Hkr. ii. 376, passim.
m. captain of a host.
a, m. a captain of hosts, Fms. vii. 37.
m. military force.
m. a military force, Fms. vii. 319, Hkr. i. 281: means, forces, Grág. i. 287, Eg. 79.
n. pl. reward for help rendered.
n. pl. reward for help rendered, Fms. vii. 146.
m. follower, warrior.
m. a follower, warrior, in pl. liðsmenn, the men of one’s army, Eg. 57, Fms. ix. 36, 47, 509: a sailor, in the pr. name
m. odds.
m. odds, Eg. 289, Nj. 86, Fms. i. 42, Hkr. i. 115, Fs. 14.
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m. a gathering of troops, Fms. vii. 177.
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n.; leggja e-m l., to speak a good word for one.
a. in need of help.
adj. in need of help, Fms. vii. 265, xi. 24.
f. need of help.
f. need of help, Fms. viii. 199.
adv. willingly, readily (gerði Þ. þat vel ok ~).
adv. willingly, readily, Fms. iii. 119.
a.
1) lithe, supple;
2) free, unhindered (skal Grettir fara l. þangat, sem hann vill);
3) unoccupied, disengaged;
4) easy, fluent of language (með ~i norrœnu).
adj. [Germ. ledig], ready, willing, 655 xxxii. 2: free, unhindered, lauss ok liðugr, Stj. 59; skal Grettir fara liðugr þangat sem hann vill, Grett. 147; lofið mér liðugan gang! Safn i. 69: unoccupied, disengaged, Fs. ii. 80, Sturl. iii. 244, H. E. i. 422: free of payment, B. K. 119, Jb. 256; kvittr ok liðugr, Dipl. iii. 1, v. 21: easy, flowing (of language), með liðugri Norrænu, Bs. ii. 121: yielding, Fms. v. 299: agile, alert, in mod. usage.
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m. pl. the men from Lið in Norway, in the county Vík, near to Oslo (Christiania), Ann. 1308; cp. Lið-vicingas in the old Anglo-Saxon poem Widsith.
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f. addition of help, Thom. 36.
a. strong, powerful.
adj. strong, powerful, Fms. viii. 345.
a. short of men.
adj. short of men, Fms. vii. 289, Ísl. ii. 408.
f. scarcity of men.
f. a scarcity of men, Þiðr. 64.
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adj. able-bodied, Eg. 117, 146, Fms. x. 399, xi. 146, Hkr. ii. 384.
a. good at doing; handy.
adj. good at doing, handy; kappsfullr ok l. at öllu … lið-betri, Bs. i. 655, Fms. vi. 337.
f. a kind of metre.
u, f. a kind of metre, Edda 134 (Ht. 53).
f. a kind of metre.
f. = liðhenda, Edda 124.
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adj. in the metre liðhenda, Edda 131.
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adj.; liðlangan dag, the live-long day.
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adj. helpless, N. G. L. i. 211.
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u, f. [löskr], a bad hand, laggard.
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n. lack of forces, Fms. x. 403, Jb. 392.
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adj. of slight help, feeble.
adv. adroitly, handily.
adv. handily, adroitly, finely, Sturl. ii. 52.
a. adroit, handy.
adj. alert, adroit, Sks. 289, Bs. i. 651, Fb. i. 167, Sturl. ii. 52.
a.
1) having few men;
2) of little use.
adj. having few men, Fms. vii. 207: naughty, 59.
adv. adroitly.
adv. adroitly, Band. 5 new Ed., Fms. vi. 326.
a. adroit, handy.
adj. adroit, handy, Fms. iii. 83, vii. 112.
a. having many men.
adj. having many men, Njarð. 370, Gullþ. 11: liðfleiri, compar., Bs. ii. 150, Stj. 588.
a. = liðmargr.
adj. = liðmargr, Hkr. ii. 193.
a. lithe, limber (meðliðmjúkum fingrum).
adj. [liðr], lithe, slender, of the fingers, Karl. 301.
a. rejected from a lið.
adj. rejected as not able-bodied, Eb. 224, Ó. H. 202.
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-samnaðr, m. a gathering of troops, Eg. 98, 271, Fms. i. 117, vii. 286, Fær. 105, Nj. 105, Hkr. ii. 239.
a. ready to help.
adj. ready to help, Fms. viii. 81.
f. assistance.
f. assistance, Fs. 18, Eg. 265, 722, 731, Fms. i. 126, Edda 35.
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f. = liðsemd, Grett. 83.
(að), v.
1) to assist, with dat. (~ e-m);
2) to further, with acc. (hefir hón því heitit at ~ þetta mál).
að, mod. t, with dat., to assist, further, Fms. vi. 269: with acc., to further, 395: liðsinnaðr, part. helping, Fms. iv. 308, vi. 62.
n. help, assistance.
n. help, assistance, Fms. iv. 159, Stj. 139, Fs. 33. liðsinnis-maðr, m. a helper, Lv. 79, Ó. H. 34.
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f. an array of troops, Hkr. ii. 362.
m. lack of men.
m. lack of men, Al. 41.
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n. adj. requiring many people; vér höfum skip mikit ok liðskylft, requiring a numerous crew, Ó. H. 134; cp. fé-skylft.
a. lacking means (men).
adj. lacking means (men), Landn. 84.
a. doughty, valiant.
adj. doughty, valiant, Lv. 24.
f. succour, support.
u, f. the granting help, support, Fms. i. 129, iv. 216, passim. liðveizlu-maðr, m. a supporter, Nj. 178, Fms. x. 258.
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a, m. = liðvani, K. Á., Sighvat.
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adj. = liðsþurfi, Grett. 102 A.
n.
1) life; týna lífinu, to lose one’s life; taka (ráða) e-n af lífi, to take or put and end to one’s life; sitja um l. e-s, to attempt or seek one’s life; vera á lífi, to be alive, living; vera lífi minnr, to be dead; fyrir l. sitt, even if it should cost one’s life (þeir vilja ekki fyrir l. sitt frá hverfa); lífs, alive; lífs eða látinn, alive or dead; hvárki lífs né liðinn, lífs né dauða, neither alive nor dead;
2) body; lífs ok sálar, body and soul; esp. the waist, middle (hafði hann vafit klæðum um lífit);
3) person; at svá fagrt l. skyldi þann veg kveljast, that so fine a man should be tortured in that way.
f., see lyf.
(lifl, lifða, lifat), v.
1) to be left (er þriðjungr lifði nætr); meðan öld lifir, while the world stands;
2) to live; meðan hann lifði, while he lived; at sér lifanda, in his life-time; lifa eptir e-n, to survive one (verðr maðr eptir annan at l.); l. við e-t, to live on, feed on (þeir lifðu nú við reka ok smádýri);
3) to burn, of fire (lifði þar eldr í skála).
pres. lifi; pret. lifði; imperat. lif, lifðú, an older form lifi, 655 iv. 1, Stj. 445; neut. part. lifat, masc. lifðr, Hm. 69: there was a strong verb lifa, leif, lifu, lifinn, of which leifa is the causal, but of this word nothing now remains except the part. acc. lifna (vivos), Hkv. 2. 27, and dat. lifnum (vivo), 45: [Ulf. lifan = ζην; A. S. lifan; Engl. live; O. H. G. leban; Germ. leben; Swed. lefva; Dan. leve; a word common to all Teut. languages, the original sense of which was to be left, and so akin to leifa, = Lat. superstes esse, which sense still remains in some Icel. phrases; cp. also lifna.]
A. To be left; þóat einn hleifr lifi eptir, although one loaf ‘lives’ behind, i. e. is left, N. G. L. i. 349; skal þat atkvæði þeirra vera í hverju máli sem þá lifir nafnsins eptir, er ór er tekinn raddar-stafr ór nafninu, Skálda (Thorodd); þá er þat atkvæði hans í hverju máli sem eptir lifir nafnsins, er ór er tekinn raddar-stafr ór nafni hans, id.
2. of the day, night, or season; þá er þriðjungr lifir dags, when a third of the day is left, N. G. L. …
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(að), v.
1) to be left;
2) to come to life, revive (konungr hugði, at hón mundi l.).
að, [Ulf. af-lifnan = περιλείπεσθαι; Swed. lämna; Dan. levne]:—to be left; en þeir er lifnuðu (those who were left alive) iðruðusk lögbrota, Sks. 675 B; engir afkvistir munu þar af lifna (to be left) í þessu landi, Fb. ii. 299; en þóat einn leifr lifni eptir, N. G. L. i. 371.
II. to come to life, revive, K. Þ. K. 14, Hkr. i. 102, MS. 623. 26: to remain, Alg. 358.
m.
1) conduct of life;
2) convent life, convent.
m. life, conduct of life, Stj. 55, 223, freq. in mod. usage: ó-lifnaðr, a wicked life.
2. convent life, a convent, Ann. 1231, Fms. xi. 444, Bs. i. 857, ii. 151.
(gen. and pl. lifrar), f. liver.
f., gen. sing. and nom. pl. lifrar: [A. S. lifer; Engl. liver; Germ. leber]:—the liver, Fbr. 137, Edda 76, Stj. 309, Grett. 137, passim: blóð-lifr, coagulated blood.
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u, f., poët. a sister, Bragi.
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part. stewed with liver, Snót.
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a, m., poët. a brother, Edda (Gl.)
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adj. liver coloured, dark red.
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m., see lyfsteinn.
(ligg; lá, lágum; leginn), v.
1) to lie (ör liggr þar úti á vegginum);
~ sjúkr, to lie sick (hann liggr sjúkr heima);
þeir lágu í sárum, they lay ill of their wounds;
2) to lie buried (hér liggr skáld);
3) to lie at anchor (hann lagði til hafnar ok lá þþþþþþar um hríð);
~ veðrfastr, to lie weather-bound;
4) to lie, be situated, of a place (þorp ok borgir, er lágu við ríki hans);
5) to lie, go, lead, of a road (liggr gata til bœjarins);
6) to be covered with ice, ice-bound (vetrar-ríki var á mikit ok lágu firðir allir);
7) to lie with, have sexual intercourse with, = ~ hjá konu;
8) with preps. and advs.:
~ á e-m, to lie heavy on, weigh upon, oppress (~ á mér hugir stórra manna);
~ á hálsi e-m, to hang on one’s neck, blame one;
~ á e-m, to be fated to one (þat lá á konungi, at hann skyldi eigi lifa um tíu vetr);
~ á e-u, to attend, be connected with (á þessum ráðum ~ stórmeinbugir);
to be urgent, of importance, pressing (A. kvað honum eigi á ~ þat at vita);
liggr honum ekki á, it does not matter to him;
~ á úknyttum, to pursue wicked courses;
~ eptir, to be left undone (skal ekki eptir ~ þat, sem vér megum þeim veita); …
pres. ligg, pl. liggja; pret. lá, 2nd pers. látt, mod. lást; subj. lægi; imperat. ligg and liggðú; part. leginn: [Ulf. ligan = κεισθαι; A. S. licgan; Chauc. to ligge; North. E. and Scot. to lig; Engl. to lie; Germ. liegen; Dan. ligge]:—to lie; ör liggr þar úti á vegginum, Nj. 115, Fas. i. 284; þeir vógu at honum liggjanda ok úvörum, 332; hann liggr á hauginum, Fb. i. 215; lá hann inni meðan þeir börðusk, Nj. 85; legsk hann niðr í runna nokkura ok liggr þar um stund, 132; Rafn lá í bekk, Sturl. i. 140; sveinar tveir er lengi höfðu úti legit á fjöllum, to lie out in the cold, Fms. ii. 98; sumir lágu úti á fjöllum með bú sín, lay out on the fells with their cattle, Sturl. iii. 75: of robbers, cp. úti-legu-maðr, an ‘outlying-man,’ outlaw; l. úti á fjöllum, Ld. 250: of freebooters, víkingar tveir, ok lágu úti bæði vetr ok sumar, Grett. 83; l. í hernaði, víkingu, to be out on a raid, Fs. 120, Eg. 1, Fms. xi. 44:—to lie, rest, þú skalt liggja í lopti hjá mér í nótt, Nj. 6; lágu þau þar tvau ein í loptinu, 7; þú skalt ríða um nætr en liggja (but lie abed) um daga, 34; Gunnarr lá mjök langa hríð, 94; …
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f. lily (hon var hvít sem ~).
u, f. [Lat. lilium], a lily, Stj. 562, Barl. 44, Trist. 7, Mag. 9: name of a poem, whence the saying, öll skáld vildu Lilju kveðit hafa, H. E. ii. 398:—metaph. of a lady, mín liljan fríð! Fkv. ii. 52: cp. den lillie-vaand (qs. lily-hand), epithet of a lady in the Danish Ballads.
COMPDS: liljugrös, Liljulag.
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n. pl. lily flowers, Matth. vi. 28.
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n. the metre of the Lilja, the mod. name for the ancient hrynhenda (q. v.), in which metre the Lilja was composed, whence the name.
n. foliage, small branches.
n., this word is heterogene, neut. in sing., fem. in plur.:—the foliage, limbs, crown of a tree, opp. to the stem; hann lætr snúa liminu hvers trés út af borginni, Fb. ii. 124; neðarliga af furunni stóð einn kvistr mjór, ok tók í limit upp, Fas. iii. 33:—fagots, festi brátt í liminu er þeir höfðu borit undir virkit, Fms. i. 128; eldr kveyktr í þurru limi, vii. 37; ef maðr vill sér nýta lim þat, Grág. ii. 297.
II. plur. limar; limbs, branches, á baðmi viðar þeim er lúta austr limar, Sdm. 11, Fsm. 19; með greinum ok limum, Sks. 555; með limum ok kvistum, 444; bítr af Léraðs limum, Gm. 25; þeir lágu svá nær berginu, at lauf ok limar tóku út yfir skipit, Ó. H. 36; tré mikit, óðu limarnar uppi, en rætrnar í sjónum, Fms. vii. 163; þá sá þeir at limarnar hrærðusk, Eg. 377; festu skjöldu sína í limar, Nj. 104; þeir köstuðu lykkju snærisins upp í limar trésins, drógu síðan, svá at konungr hékk uppi við limar, Hkr. i. 26.
2. metaph. ramifications, consequences; grimmar limar ganga at trygð-rofi | armr er vára vargr, Sdm. 23; orða þeirra, er á annan lýgr | oflengi leiða limar, Skv. 2. 4; af þeim úvönum ok siðleysum leiddi svá margar limar, Thom. …
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að, limðir, poët., Edda (in a verse), [limr], to dismember, El. 1, Sturl. ii. 11, Fas. iii. 126; af-lima (q. v.), Bs. ii. 75; lima upp, to rip up, N. G. L. i. 381.
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1) branchy, full of branches;
2) limbed; l. mjök, large-limbed; l. vel, having shapely limbs.
part. [limr], limbed, esp. of the feet, hands; vel, ílla limaðr, Bs. i. 127, Ld. 20, Fms. v. 238, Ó. H. 74; limaðr mjök, with long limbs, Fms. vi. 206.
II. [lim], branching, Fb. iii. 298.
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m. gait, bearing.
n. paralysis.
n., limafalls-sýki, f., medic. paralysis, Fél.
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n. pl. safety of limbs (lífs grið ok lima), K. Á. 36.
n. mutilation.
n. mutilation, Fms. iii. 158.
a. ugly-limbed.
adj. ugly limbed, Bárð. 165.
m. frame of the body.
m. the frame of the body, Fms. x. 151.
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a, m., proncd. lími, [lim], a broom or rod of twigs, rod; barðr ok með lima húðstrokinn, Bær. 20; hann lætr ganga limann um bak honum ok báðar síður, Grett. 135; lét taka þá Svein alla, ok leggja fast lima á bak þeim, and lay the rod stoutly on their backs, Fms. vi. 189; limi söng harðan prima, the rod sang a harsh time (on his back), Mork. 227, cp. Orkn. 188, (in the verse in the note) = ‘the waves did beat the ship:’ the mod. phrase, leggja sig í líma, prop. to lay oneself under the rod, to take great pains in a thing, work hard; sóp-limi, a sweeping besom. lima-högg, n. a flogging, Hkr. iii. 216.
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u, f. limpness, weakness, Fél. xv; það er limpa í mér, (mod.)
(gen. -ar, pl. -ir, acc. -u), m.
1) limb (halda lífi ok limum);
2) joint of meat (þrír limir kjöts).
m., gen. limar, pl. limir, acc. limu, limi, Sks. 107 new Ed., as also mod.; [A. S. lim; Engl. limb; Swed.-Dan. lem]:—a limb; á sínum limum, Hom. 126; um nasar eða aðra limu, Bs. i. 522; manna-höfuð ok af höggnir limir, Fms. i. 171; limuna, Bs. ii. 158, 168; leysa limu sína, Sturl. ii. 90: allit., líf ok limu, life and limb, Eg. 89; er viðr liggr líf eða limir, Gþl. 550; lífs grið ok lima, Eb. 310.
2. metaph., limu Guðs, Mar.; limu Fjándans, Devil’s limb, Fms. viii. 221.
II. a joint of meat; var á brautu einn limr oxans, Ísl. ii. 331; þrjá limu kjöts, Vm. 119; nauta-limir, hálfr fjórði tigr, Dipl. v. 18; limr slátrs, N. G. L. ii. 176.
III. = lim, n.; hvern lim eða kvist þeirrar ræðu, Sks. 568.
COMPDS: limaburðr, limafall, limagrið, limalát, limaljótr, limavöxtr.
f. burden of faggots.
f. a burden of fagots, Fms. i. 127.
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adj. sound-limbed, N. G. L. i. 85.
a. indecl. cowed, prostrate.
adj., prop. of a horse = bógsiga, wrung in the withers: metaph. cowed, prostrate, þér látið mikilliga, en þegar ríkra manna orð koma til yðar, þá eru þér þegar limhlaupa, Sturl. i. 14; þeir Hörgdælir vóru orðnir svá limhlaupa fyrir Guðmundi, at …, 163.
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t, to maim, Geisli.
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f. mutilation.
(að), v.
1) to soften, mitigate;
2) to soothe, alleviate (linit harmi mínum); impers., e-u linar, it abates (við átak hans linat þegar sóttinni);
3) l. til, to give way;
4) refl., linast, to be softened, give way (þá linuðust hugir þeirra).
að, [Dan. lindre; see linr], to soften, mitigate; þat linar saur, Pr. 473.
2. metaph. to alleviate; Guð linaði þeirra eymðir, Stj.:—with dat., lina þvílíkum þunga, Dipl. ii. 14; lina atsókninni, Stj. 604; unit harmi mínum, Karl. 215; lina til, to give way, Fms. vi. 28:—to abate, Bs. ii. 49 (of the wind).
II. impers. it abates; þá er líttat linaði élinu, Fms. xi. 136; við átak hans linar þegar sóttinni, Fb. ii. 145; at nokkut skyldi lina augna-verkinum, Bs. i. 317.
III. reflex. to be softened, give way; þá linuðusk hugir þeirra, Fms. ii. 36, Pr. 471, Rb. 440, Sturl. iii. 19.
f. mitigation.
f. mitigation, H. E. i. 259, ii. 72, 98, Grett. 117 A.
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f.
1) lime-tree; lindar váði, fire (poet.);
2) linden-shield;
3) linden spear-shaft.
II)
f. source, spring; lindar logi, gold (poet.).
f. a well, spring, brook, freq. in mod. usage, but seems not to occur in old writers unless it be in Skv. 2. 1, (lindar-logi, ‘well-lowe’ = gold): compds, vatns-lind, uppsprettu-lind.
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1) lime-tree; lindar váði, fire (poet.);
2) linden-shield;
3) linden spear-shaft.
II)
f. source, spring; lindar logi, gold (poet.).
f., dat. lindi, Eg. 567 (in a verse), [A. S. lind; Engl. linden, lime; O. H. G. linta; Germ. linde; Dan. lind]:—a lime-tree, Edda (Gl.), Merl. 2, 88, Pr. 406, passim, see Lex. Poët.
II. metaph. a shield (of lime-wood), Rm. 32, Vsp. 50; steind lind, a stained shield, Lex. Poët.; as also a spear, Fas. ii. 320 (in a verse), Lex. Poët.: bauga lind, Völ. 5, is dubious, perhaps = lime-bast, on which the rings were strung.
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a, m. a girdle, sash, B. K. 105.
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n. laying the lindi, a law term; sækja e-n til lindalags, to ask one to lay down his belt, symbolical of insolvency, this done the creditor might recover his goods wherever he finds them, N. G. L. i. 214.
m. the waist.
m. the waist, Bær. 9, Sks. 169.
m. belt, girdle.
1. a, m. [prop., as it seems, from lind = a string of lime-bast], a belt, girdle, Vkv. 17, Hkr. i. 82, Fms. i. 217, vi. 61, Bjarn. 19, 62, Rb. 438, 470, Magn. 468; eigi lagði verri maðr linda at sér, no worse man ever belted himself, Finnb. 260; lindi af lérepti, Bs. i. 317: a belt belonging to a priest’s dress, Vm. 115, = messufata-lindi, Fms. iv. 111. In mod. usage lindi is any twist of wool or hair wound round the waist, hár-lindi, band-lindi, silki-lindi, hnjósku-lindi, q. v.: poët. the sea is called Siggjar-lindi, Raðar-lindi, = the belt of the islands, Lex. Poët.
COMPDS: lindabindi, lindalag, lindastaðr.
2. n. a lime-tree, = lind, Lex. Poët.