BLIK

Old Norse Dictionary Entry

BLIK

Old Norse Dictionary Entry

Definitions

1 BLIK

n. [cp. Germ. blick and blitz; Engl. blink (in ice-blink, the gleam of distant ice-fields), and blaze], gleam, sheen, Scot. glint, Lat. nitor; barach þýðir b. eðr brjánda, Stj. 389. The original notion of fulgor is alien to Icel.; even augnablik, q. v., is of Dan. and Germ. extraction; a dead-calm sea is in Danish havblik and blikstille, but in Icel. blæja-logn. The gleam of metal (shields) is called blik, Edda 86 (poët.): of the sky, Breiðablik is the heavenly abode of the god Baldr, Gm. 12.

2 BLIK

2. bleaching, Dan. bleg; blæjur á bliki, Fas. ii. (in a verse); lérept á bliki, N. G. L. i. 381.

3 BLIK

3. hadd-blik, Edda 77.

4 BLIK

II. (for. word), the vizor on a helmet, in writers of the 14th and 15th centuries, Fas. iii. 229, Ann. 1393.

Runic Inscription

ᛒᛚᛁᚴ

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark

Abbreviations Used

Common Abbreviations

ch
chapter.
cp
compare.
cp.
compare.
Dan
Danish.
Dan.
Danish.
Engl
English.
Engl.
English.
for.
foreign.
Germ
German.
Germ.
German.
gl
glossary.
gl.
glossary.
Icel
Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
Icel.
Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
l.
Linnæus.
Lat
Latin.
Lat.
Latin.
lit
literally.
m.
masculine.
n.
neuter.
orig
original, originally.
p.
page.
poët.
poetical, poetically.
q. v.
quod vide.
Scot.
Scottish.
v.
vide, verb.
viz
videlicet.

Works & Authors

Ann.
Íslenzkir Annálar. (D. IV.)
Edda
Edda. (C. I.)
Fas.
Fornaldar Sögur. (C. II.)
Gm.
Grímnis-mál. (A. I.)
N. G. L.
Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
Stj.
Stjórn. (F. I.)

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