hrót

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n. [Ulf. hrôt = στέγη, Matth. viii. 8, etc., = δωμα, ib. x. 27, Luke v. 19, xvii. 31]:—a roof, only in poetry; hjarta hrót, poët. the ‘heart’s-roof,’ the breast, Landn. (in a verse); hreggs hrót, the ‘gale’s-roof,’ the sky; leiptra hrót, the ‘lightning-roof,’ the sky; heims hrót, the ‘world’s-roof,’ the heaven, Lex. Poët. hrót-gandr, m. ‘roof-wolf,’ fire; or hrót-garmr, m. id., Lex. Poët.

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   the roof near the outer door is in mod. usage called rót, f.