Tafn

Signification du mot vieux norrois "tafn"

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

Le mot vieux norrois tafn peut signifier :tafn

tafn

n. [cp. Lat. daps; Gr. δαπάνη; the Greek word is analogous to sóa, which means to sacrifice and then to waste]:—a sacrifice, = Lat. victima, hostia, but only in a heathen sense, and obsolete; heilagt tafn, the holy sacrifice, Hd.; Gauts tafn, the victims of Odin, i. e. the slain, who in the heathen creed were an offering to Odin, the god of victory, Landn. (in a verse).

tafn

2. a bloody prey, poët.; tafn fékksk hrafni, tafns leitandi hrafnar, hrafn fagnaði tafni, hrafn á ylgjar tafni, bola tafn und kló hrafni, Lex. poët. (in all these references ‘tafn’ is used by the poets to rhyme to hrafn); val-tafn, id.; gefa ærit tafn hrafni ok vargi, Karl. 152: in old eccl. writers, sæfa töfn, Stj. 348; tafn Guðs, 310 (victima Domini, Vulgate); fórn ok töfn, 655 xxiii. 1; fórnir ok töfn, id.

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