Yrða

semsveinar

nafnorð, karlkyn

sem-sveinar

m. pl., of the Finnish messengers, prob. from Finn. Saomi, Fs. 22, for this seems to have been the real reading in the lost Cod. Vatnshyrna; Bartholin De Causis Contemptae Mortis, p. 467, gives the same reading; other copies read sendisveinn.

Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir

Skammstafanir

m.
karlkyn (e. masculine)
pl.
fleirtala (e. plural)
prob.
probably.
Cod.
Codex.

Tilvitnuð rit

Fs.
Forn-sögur. (D. II.)