vé ²

Merkingar

1. 1.

   n. pl., different from the preceding word; [the Lat. vexillum is a dimin. derivative from root of veho; the root word is vigan = to carry high, Lat. veho]:—a standard, remains only in poetry; gyld vé, golden standards, Fms. i. 175 (in a verse); veðr-blásin vé, vii. 345 (in a verse); fram óðu vé, vi. 409 (in a verse); þar er vé vaða, Darr. 6; gullsett vé gnæfa, vé geysa, glymja, skjálfa, blása, ríða, all poët. phrases of the standard carried high in battle, see Lex. Poët.; reisa vé, to hoist the vé, Fms. viii. (in a verse); hildar vé, the ‘war-standard,’ i. e. a shield, Haustl. 1, (for shields were used as such, see remarks s. v. skjöldr.)

2. 2.

   interj. [Goth. vai; Germ. wehe; Lat. vae; cp. vá], woe, misery; eymd eðr vé, Stj. 39.