hnakkr

Merkingar

m. an anchor-stone, similar to the mod. dreki and stjóri (εὐναί in Homer), whence hnakk-band, hnakk-mið.

1. II.

   a man’s saddle, freq. in mod. usage, which distinguishes between a söðull (a side saddle) and hnakkr, but it seems not to be found in old writers, except in hnakkmarr above.

2. III.

   = knakkr, q. v.; stólar fjórir, knakkr, lectari, Pm. 17 (in a church’s inventory).