1 HEIPT
better heift, f. [Ulf. haifsts = ἔρις, ἐριθεία, ἀγών, cp. haifstjan = ἀγωνίζεσθαι; akin is Germ. heftig, whence mod. Dan. hæftig]:—the earliest sense is feud, deadly war; vinna e-m heipt, to wage war (do battle) against one, Vkv. 10; deila heiptir, to wage deadly feud, Hkv. 1. 44; senda e-m heiptar-boð, to challenge one to combat, Fas. iii. 27 (in a verse): hereto belong such poët. epithets as, heiptar-nýtr, heiptar-strangr, heipt-bráðr, heipt-fíkinn, heipt-glaðr, heipt-mildr, heipt-minnigr, heipt-móðr, heipt-örr, heipt-snarr, = mighty in war, warlike, all of them used as ‘ornamental’ epithets of praise, vide Lex. Poët.: as also heiptar-hvessir, m. a war kindler, id.
2 HEIPT
β. bane; heipt hrísungs, the bane of a copse, i. e. fire, Ýt. 19: in the old poems Hm. and Sdm. heipt seems used in a peculiar sense, viz. an imprecation, spell, Hm. 136, 152, Sdm. 12, 36, and perh. Eb. in the Máhlíðingavísur.
3 HEIPT
2. evil doings, injury; eiga e-m heiptir at gjalda, Hkr. i. 85, Korm. (in a verse); gjalda e-m harma ok heiptir, Ó. H. 214.
4 HEIPT
II. deadly hatred, spite; halda heift í hjarta, Hom. 50; heipt ok harðindi, ill-will and tyranny, Fms. vi. 42; meir af h. en ást, xi. 310; hafa heipt á e-m, to hate one.
5 HEIPT
2. fury; þá svall heipt í Högna, H. swelled with fury, Bragi.
6 HEIPT
COMPDS: heiptarblóð, heiptarfenginn, heiptarhugr, heiptarhönd, heiptarmál.