útburðr
nafnorðkarlkynút-burðr
a bearing out; skipleigu, uppburð ok útburð, unloading and freighting, of ships and cargo; útburðar eldr, a fire cast out, 377.
2. the exposing of infants (see bera A. III. 2); barna útburðr, 12: in popular superstition, the spirit of an exposed infant, which is heard in desert places to emit a shrill, piteous cry, hence the phrase, ‘to cry like an útburðr;’ in the earlier law, útburðr means the spirit of an infant that died unchristened; börn er eigi fengu skírn skyldi grafa útan við kirkju-garð, en áðr vóru þau grafin fjarri vígðum stoðum sem sekir menn, ok kölluðu fáfróðir menn þá útburði, i. 687. útburðar-væl, a piteous wailing heard in desolate places, of evil foreboding, Maurer’s Volks. 59, and i.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- esp.especially.
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- eccl.ecclesiastical.
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- cp.compare.
- Gþl.Gulaþings-lög. (B. II.)
- Íb.Íslendinga-bók. (D. I.)
- Bs.Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)
- Ísl. Þjóðs.Íslenzkar Þjóðsögur.