1 SEYRA
u, f. [from saurr in its oldest sense = bogs and moorland]:—prop., as it seems, starvation, famine; only in the allit. phrase, sultr ok seyra, hunger and starvation, Yngl. S. ch. 18, Fms. viii. 181, ix. 51, Stj. 212, and in mod. usage; cp. the analogous word horr, which means both Lat. sordes and macies; land-seyra, q. v.; sopa-seyra, a sip of the dregs, Jón Þorl.