Svað

Signification du mot vieux norrois "svað"

Comme défini par le dictionnaire vieux norrois-anglais de Cleasby & Vigfusson :

svað

n. and svaði, a, m. [sveðja], a slippery place, a slide, as of frozen ground with a half-thawed muddy surface; þá var þeyr, var svað (svaði, Fb. l. c.) á þelanum, Fms. viii. 393; svað (svaði C) var á vellinum, ok skriðnaði hann, Sturl. ii. 104; hestrinn skriðnaði á svadanum, iii. 141: metaph. phrase, var við svað um, at mart manna mundi drukna, it was on the slide, was imminent, that many people should be drowned, Mork. 92. In mod. usage svaði is chiefly used of slippery ledges of rock projecting into the sea, and washed by the tides.

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