blá
nafnorð, kvenkyn
blá-mær
f. [mœrr = moor, cp. landamæri, borders, Caes. Bell. Gall, vi. ch. 23], the blue moor, an απ. λεγ. in the Norse poet Eyvind Skáldaspillir as an epithet of the sea about A. D. 960, Hkr. i. 154; cp. Landn. 54, which reads borðmærar, and attributes the verse to another poet. The word is still in use in Norway in the popular phrase, ut aa blaamyra: vide Ivar Aasen s. v. blaamyr, the sea.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
Skammstafanir
- f.
- kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- cp.
- compare.
- ch.
- chapter.
- απ. λεγ.
- απαξ. λεγόμενον.
- A. D.
- Anno Domini.
- s. v.
- sub voce.
Tilvitnuð rit
- Hkr.
- Heimskringla. (E. I.)
- Landn.
- Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.