set
nafnorð, hvorugkyn
set-berg
Merkingar
n. [cp, the Cumbrian Saddleback], a seat-formed or saddle-formed rock or crag, Gs. 11, Edda 34 (from the points of Thor’s hammer); sitja setbergs (= á setbergi), Edda (in a verse).
- II.
in local names in Icel., Set-berg, in western Icel. These fells were looked on as the mountain-seats of tutelary giants (land-vættir), cp. ‘vivo sedilia saxo’ in Virgil.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
Skammstafanir
- n.
- hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- cp.
- compare.
Tilvitnuð rit
- Gs.
- Grótta-söngr. (A. II.)
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)