syrpa

Merkingar

u, f. [sorp; prop. = a swill for beasts; Norse sörpe]:—a dirty woman, Edda ii. 629: the name of an ogress, Edda (Gl.)

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   a volume of miscellaneous things; kvæða syrpa, syrpa mín (‘my syrpa,’ i. e. the book into which the poet entered his occasional songs), pref. to the Poems of Bjarni Thorarinson, p. 1. syrpu-þing, n., in syrpuþings-lög, n. pl. a kind of mock pleading, mock lawsuit, composed as an entertainment; var hann eptir í stofu á kveldin er Þorkell gékk at sofa, ok hefir frammi margs-konar ertingar, ok þat hafa menn sagt at hann hafi fyrstr fundit upp á Syrpuþings-lög; menn kómu víða af bæjum, ok görðisk þar af þyss mikill, Lv. 26; the exact thing is now lost, perh. it was something similar to the mod. Skraparots-prédikan.