brynja
nafnorð, kvenkyn
sjá einnig brynja sagnorð
u, f. [Ulf. brynio; A. S. burn; Hel. bry-nio; O. H. G. brunja; Swed. brynja; Dan. brynie]:—a coat of mail, in olden times woven of rings (hringa-brynja, ring-mail), hence in poetry called hring-skyrta, a chain-mail sark or shirt, with epithets such as ‘iron sewed, knit, woven,’ and the like, Lex. Poët.: the breast-plate, spanga-brynja (Fms. vii. 264, viii. 95, 388), is of later date, viz. of the time of the Crusades and the following ages, vide Fms. i. 43, ii. 309, iv. 65, vi. 410, 411, vii. 45, 46, viii. 403, xi. 137, v. 1. etc. etc., Bs. i. 526, 528, 624.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
Skammstafanir
- f.
- kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- Ulf.
- Ulfilas.
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- Hel.
- Heliand.
- O. H. G.
- Old High German.
- Swed.
- Swedish.
- Dan.
- Danish.
- viz.
- namely.
- etc.
- et cetera.
- COMPDS
- samsett orð (e. compounds)
Tilvitnuð rit
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Fms.
- Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Bs.
- Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)