n. the ‘summer-meal;’ the last days of winter and the first of summer are thus called, e. g. in the Icel. Almanack for 1872 ‘sumar-mál’ is on the 20th of April and the following days: in sing., N. G. L. i. 240: plur., at sumarmálum, Grág. i. 140, 198, Gþl. 422, Rb. 42, Fms. ii. 99; sumarmála dagr = sumar-dagr fyrsti, Fb. i. 132; sumarmála-helgr, the Sunday that falls in the beginning of the summer, Sturl. ii. 235 C.