Út-burðr

Betydelsen av det fornnordiska ordet "út-burðr"

Enligt Cleasby & Vigfussons fornnordisk-engelska ordbok:

Fornnordiskt ord út-burðr kan betyda:út-burðr

út-burðr

m. a bearing out; skipleigu, uppburð ok útburð, unloading and freighting, of ships and cargo; útburðar eldr, a fire cast out, Gþl. 377.

út-burðr

2. esp. the exposing of infants (see bera A. III. 2); barna útburðr, Íb. 12: in popular superstition, the spirit of an exposed infant, which is heard in desert places to emit a shrill, piteous cry, hence the Icel. phrase, ‘to cry like an útburðr;’ in the earlier eccl. law, útburðr means the spirit of an infant that died unchristened; börn er eigi fengu skírn skyldi grafa útan við kirkju-garð, en áðr vóru þau grafin fjarri vígðum stoðum sem sekir menn, ok kölluðu fáfróðir menn þá útburði, Bs. i. 687. útburðar-væl, n. a piteous wailing heard in desolate places, of evil foreboding, cp. Maurer’s Volks. 59, and Ísl. Þjóðs. i.

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