örkostr

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m. a resource, way out of a difficulty; hann skal gjalda sex aura … ef hann á örkost til en ekki elligar, Grág. ii. 155; ek hefi slíkan örkost (mat, Bs. i, l. c.) ætlat til Jóla-vistar mönnum sem hér hefir lengi vant verit, Sturl. i. 216: so in the phrase, eiga einskis úrkostar, to have means for nothing, be destitute; ef hann á þess úrkosti, if he has means to do it.

1. II.

   a ‘want of choice,’ lack; fundu þeir at Ægis örkost hvera, they found no cauldron by Æ., Hým. 1.