Höd
nafnorð, kvenkyn
f. [A. S. heaðu- in several poët. compds; cp. Sansk. çatru and çâtayâmi; Lat. caedo; Gr. κότος]:—war, slaughter, but only in compd pr. names, Höð-broddr, Fb.; Höð, f. the name of a Valkyria (also Geira-höð), Gm.: as also of a woman, but mythical, Fas.: the name of an island in Norway: Höðr, m., gen. Haðar, dat. Heði, the name of the blind brother and ‘slayer’ of Baldr, the ‘fratricide’ or ‘Cain’ of the Edda, Vsp. 37, Vtkv. 9, Edda 17, 56: also the name of a mythol. king, whence Heðir, pl. a Norse people; and Haða-land, the county, Fb. iii. Haðar-lag, n. the metre of Höd, a kind of metre, Edda.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
Skammstafanir
- f.
- kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- poët.
- poetically.
- cp.
- compare.
- Sansk.
- Sanskrit.
- Lat.
- Latin.
- Gr.
- Greek.
- pr.
- proper, properly.
- m.
- karlkyn (e. masculine)
- gen.
- eignarfall (e. genitive)
- dat.
- þágufall (e. dative)
- mythol.
- mythology, mythologically.
- pl.
- fleirtala (e. plural)
- n.
- hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
Tilvitnuð rit
- Fb.
- Flateyjar-bók. (E. I.)
- Gm.
- Grímnis-mál. (A. I.)
- Fas.
- Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Vsp.
- Völuspá. (A. I.)
- Vtkv.
- Vegtams-kviða. (A. I.)