öskupoki
nafnorðkarlkynösku-poki
a, an ‘ash-poke,’ ash-bag. In on Ash-Wednesday, men and women, the young, are all day long on the alert, being divided into two camps; the women trying to fasten small bags of ashes, by a hook or pin, on the men (hengja á þá ösku-poka), hooking the ash-bag on their backs or clothes, so as to make them carry it unawares; it a man carries it three steps or across a threshold without knowing it, the game is won. The men on their side fasten bags with small stones on the women.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- esp.especially.