Vigr
Fornnordisk Ordbok - vigr
Betydelsen av det fornnordiska ordet "vigr"
Enligt Cleasby & Vigfussons fornnordisk-engelska ordbok:
Fornnordiskt ord vigr kan betyda:vigr
- vigr
- f., pl. vigrar, [the short vowel and the radical r are against deriving vigr from víg]:—a spear, Edda (Gl.); flugbeittra vigra, Hornklofi; vigrar rjóða, to redden the spears (vigrat Cod.), id.; vel hefir vigr of skepta, Kormak; vigrar seiðr, a spear-charm, spear-song, i. e. battle, Sturl. (in a verse); vigra dunur, dynr, él, = the din, song, shower of spears, Lex. Poët. passim.
- vigr
- II. Vigr, a local name of an island (in shape like a spear’s head) in north-western Icel.; í Vigr (acc.), BS. i. 651; í eynni Vigr (dat.), 652: in the Orkneys, the mod. Veir; in the Orkn. S. Fb. ii. l. 9 from the bottom, einn ‘ungr’ read ‘í Vigr’ (i. e. Veir, the island where Kolbein Hrúga lived, after whom is named ‘the Castle of Cuppi Row’).
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Förkortningar som används:
- Cod.
- Codex.
- f.
- feminine.
- id.
- idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
- i. e.
- id est.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- pl.
- plural.
- acc.
- accusative.
- dat.
- dative.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- mod.
- modern.
- n.
- neuter.
- S.
- Saga.
Verk & författare citerade:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Sturl.
- Sturlunga Saga. (D. I.)
- Bs.
- Biskupa Sögur. (D. III.)
- Fb.
- Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
- Orkn.
- Orkneyinga Saga. (E. II.)