skapt
nafnorð, hvorugkyn
Merkingar
n., or better skaft, [A. S. sceaft; Engl. shaft; Dan. skaft; from skafa]:—prop. a ‘shaved stick,’ a shaft, missile, Hm. 127; skapti réttara, Gsp., Darr. 3, Gm. 9, Rm. 34, Fas. i. 173; this original sense is obsolete in prose (for Fas. i. 173 is a paraphrase from a lost poem), except in the metaph. and allit. phrase, skjóta skapti, Stj. 644, Odd. 22, El. 103; skjóta skapti í móti e-m, to shoot a shaft against, to withstand(cp. reisa rönd við e-m); at engi maðr mundi skapti skjóta í móti honum, Fms. vii. 210, xi. 344, Ld. 214; as also in the law phrase, skipta jörðu með skapti, to measure land with a spear, Gþl. 286.
- 2.
of a shaft-shapen thing, a comet’s tail, Fms. ix. 482: the beam in a weaver’s loom, Darr. 2; skaptið upp af hettinum, of a high-raised hood, Karl. 178, 286: the shaft by which a top is spun, in skapt-kringla: the phrase, sýnisk mér sem hann muni ekki þar lengi gengit hafa skapta muninn, Lv. 35.
- 3.
a handle, haft, of an axe, hammer, knife, the shaft or pole of a spear or the like; var skaptið (of an axe), svart af reyk, Eg. 183: of a spear-shaft, K. Þ. K. 96; hafði Ólafr skaptið (the pole) en Hrappr spjótið (the spear’s head), Ld. 98; sviðu … járnvafit skaptið, Sturl. i. 63; this is the common Icel. sense of the word.
- II.
in local names, Skapt-á, Shaft-river, [cp. the Scot. and Engl. name Shafto]; whence Skaptár-fell (sounded Skapta-fell, cp. Shap-fell in Westmoreland); Skaptar-fells-þing (sounded Skapta-fells-þing); whence Skapt-fellingar, m. pl. the men from S., Landn.; Skaptár-jökull, Skaptár-fells-jökull. 2. Skapti, a shaft-maker (?), as a nickname, and since as a pr. name, Landn.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
Skammstafanir
- n.
- hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.
- English.
- Dan.
- Danish.
- prop.
- proper, properly.
- metaph.
- metaphorical, metaphorically.
- allit.
- alliteration, alliterative.
- cp.
- compare.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- Scot.
- Scottish.
- m.
- karlkyn (e. masculine)
- pl.
- fleirtala (e. plural)
- pr.
- proper, properly.
Tilvitnuð rit
- Hm.
- Hává-mál. (A. I.)
- Gsp.
- Getspeki Heiðreks. (A. II.)
- Darr.
- Darraðar-ljóð. (A. III.)
- Gm.
- Grímnis-mál. (A. I.)
- Rm.
- Rígsmál. (A. II.)
- Fas.
- Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
- Stj.
- Stjórn. (F. I.)
- Odd.
- Stjörnu-Odda draumr. (D. V.)
- El.
- Elis saga. (G. II.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Ld.
- Laxdæla saga. (D. II.)
- Gþl.
- Gulaþings-lög. (B. II.)
- Karl.
- Karla-magnús saga. (G. I.)
- Lv.
- Ljósvetninga saga. (D. II.)
- Eg.
- Egils saga. (D. II.)
- K. Þ. K.
- Kristinn-réttr Þorláks ok Ketils = Kristinna-laga-þáttr. (B. I.)
- Sturl.
- Sturlunga saga. (D. I.)
- Landn.
- Landnáma. (D. I.)