Definitionen
Definitionen
1 HVÍLA
1. d, to rest, esp. to rest, sleep in a bed; í hvíluna þar er hón hvíldi, Eg. 567; h. í rekkju sinni, Fb. ii. 195, Sturl. iii. 282, Fms. vii. 222; h. tveim megin brikar, Korm.; the old beds stood with the side to the wall, hence the phrase, hvíla við stokk, or þil, cp. Sturl. i. 207, 208; see also brík; h. í sama sæing konu, Grág. i. 329; h. hjá e-m, Hbl. 17.
2 HVÍLA
2. metaph. of the dead, to rest, sleep, Fms. vii. 240, N. G. L. i. 348, Sighvat, but only in a Christian sense, so that ‘hér hvílir’ (= Dan. her hviler) on Runic stones is a sure test of a Christian age.
3 HVÍLA
3. hvíla sik, to take rest, pause, Eg. 492, 586; h. lið sitt, to let one’s troops rest, Karl. 370.
4 HVÍLA
II. reflex., hvílask, to take rest, pause, 623. II, Vkv. 28, Nj. 132, Lv. 59, Fms. v. 64, vii. 193, Sks. 550: to pause, vil ek nú láta þá ræðu hvílask, Sks. 240; nú verðr þar at hvílask, Gísl. 18.
5 HVÍLA
2. u, f. [Ulf. hweila = ὤρα, χρόνος; A. S. hwîl; Engl. while; O. H. G. hwila; Germ. weile; Hel. hvîla; all of them in a temp. sense, = a while, an hour; whereas the Scandin. word has the notion of rest, making a distinction between hvíld in a general, and hvíla in a special sense; Dan. hvile; Swed. hvila]:—a bed, Sturl. i. 207, 208, iii. 282, Nj. 14, Eg. 567, Fms. xi. 290, Gísl. 16, Am. 9, Sól. 72; vers-hvíla, Grág. ii. 183, passim.
6 HVÍLA
COMPDS: hvíluábreiða, hvílubrögð, hvílufélagi, hvílugólf, hvíluhöll, hvíluklæði, hvíluneyti, hvílustofa, hvílustokkr, hvílutollr, hvíluváðir, hvíluþröng.
Runeninschrift
Runeninschrift
HVÍLA
Der obige Runentext stellt das altnordische Wort "HVÍLA" dar, wie es in Runeninschriften aus der Wikingerzeit (ca. 800-1100 n. Chr.) erscheinen könnte.