svanr
nafnorð, karlkyn
Merkingar
m., gen. svans, Pr. 478, pl. svanir; [A. S. swana; Germ. schwan; a common Teut. word, but in Icel. svanr is the poetical, álpt (q. v.) the common word]:—a swan; svanir hvítir at lit, Stj. 90; fugls þess er s. heitir, Barl. 135; hjá söngvi svana, Edda 16 (in a verse): poët., svana beðr, fold, fjöll, dalr, strind, the swan’s bed, land …, i. e. the sea: as also svan-bekkr, svan-bingr, svan-fjöll, svan-flaug, svan-fold, svan-mjöll, svan-teigr, svan-vangr, svan-vengi, the bench, bed, fell, field, earth, snow … of the swans, i. e. the sea, the waves, Lex. Poët.
- II.
Svanr, as a pr. name, Landn., Hdl.
COMPDS:
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
Skammstafanir
- m.
- karlkyn (e. masculine)
- gen.
- eignarfall (e. genitive)
- pl.
- fleirtala (e. plural)
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- Germ.
- German.
- Teut.
- Teutonic.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- q. v.
- quod vide.
- poët.
- poetically.
- i. e.
- id est.
- pr.
- proper, properly.
- COMPDS
- samsett orð (e. compounds)
Tilvitnuð rit
- Stj.
- Stjórn. (F. I.)
- Barl.
- Barlaams saga. (F. III.)
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Landn.
- Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Hdl.
- Hyndlu-ljóð. (A. II.)