Seyðir
Old Norse Dictionary - seyðir
Meaning of Old Norse word "seyðir"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- seyðir
- m. [sjóða; cp. A. S. seâd; mid. H. G. sôt = a pit], a cooking-fire, prop. the fire-pit, as seen from the passage in Landn.; as also from the phrase, raufa seyðinn, to break up the seyði; en er þeir hyggja at soðit mun vera raufa þeir seyðinn, ok var ekki soðit, id.; hence metaph., þann seyði raufar þú þar, at betri væri at eigi ryki, to rip up old sores, Ld. 208; varðar eigi þótt sá seyðr rjúki, never mind, let that fire smoke. FmS. vi. 105; þar sér hrófit ok svá seyði þeirra, Landn. 30; in the Edda (Gl.) seyðir is among the synonyms of fire; hann kvaðsk ráða því er ekki soðnaði á seyðinum, Edda 45; bera oxa á seyði, to put an ox on the fire, roast it, Hým. 15; göra seyði, to make a fire for cooking, Eg. 222; búa til seyðis, to make ready for the roasting-fire, Nj. 199; þeir taka einn oxann ok snúa til seyðis, Edda 45: in local names, Seyðis-fjörðr or Seyðar-fjörðr, in eastern Icel.; whence Seyðfirðingar, m. pl. the men from S., Landn.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᛁᚢᚦᛁᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- cp.
- compare.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- id.
- idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- metaph.
- metaphorical, metaphorically.
- mid. H. G.
- middle High German.
- n.
- neuter.
- pl.
- plural.
- prop.
- proper, properly.
- S.
- Saga.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Eg.
- Egils Saga. (D. II.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Hým.
- Hýmis-kviða. (A. I.)
- Landn.
- Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Ld.
- Laxdæla Saga. (D. II.)
- Nj.
- Njála. (D. II.)