1 val-bráð
f. venison, cp. Germ. wildpret; in melta knáttú móðugr manna valbráðir, Akv. 36.
2 val-bráð
2. (mod. val-brá), a livid spot on the skin, a ‘port-wine mark,’ medic. Lat. macula, Bs. i. 423 (see foot-note 10, so also vellums of Sturl. l. c.): freq. in mod. usage, e. g. hann hafði valbrá á hægri kinn: in Bs. i. l. c. as the nickname of a person so marked; this mythol. term reminds one of Hel, the northern Hecate, who is represented as black on one side, see Edda.