Kinga

Betydelsen av det fornnordiska ordet "kinga"

Enligt Cleasby & Vigfussons fornnordisk-engelska ordbok:

kinga

u, f., also spelt qinga, [kengr; Shetl. keengs, a pewter brooch]:—a brooch worn on the breast by ladies, so called from the clasp (kengr) by which it was fastened; kinga var á bringu, Rm. 26; kross skal dóttir hafa eða kingu, hvárt sem hón vill, eða brjóst-búnað inn bezta, ef eigi er ór gulli görr, N. G. l. i. 211 (Js. 78); þar fannsk k. ok seiðstaðr mikill, Ld. 328. As foreign coins, or copies of them, were used as brooches (Worsaae, Nos. 398–409), δραχμή (Luke xv. 8), drachma of the Vulgate is rendered in an old version of the 12th century by kinga, ef kona nequer á tio qingor, … fagnið ér með mér, þvíat ek fann kingo mína; leita kingo, … en líkneski es merkð á kingo, … kinga fanzk es umb var snúit, Greg. Frump. 82, 83.

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