Yrða

auðr

nafnorðkvenkyn
1. [ ôde, fatum], fate, destiny, only used in poetry in the phrase, fá auðar, to die, Ísl. ii. 389 (in a verse); haga til auðar, to avail towards one’s happiness, 59 (in a verse). Auðr is also a name.2. [ auþs = ερημος; odi; odi = inanis: ydan and édan, vastare; Germ, öde and öden: the root is rare in and lost in ]:—empty, void, desert, desolate; húsin voru auð, uninhabited, 96; koma at auðu landi, of the first colonists when coming to Iceland, 316, to ‘koma at bygðu landi,’ or ‘land numið;’ auð búð, 727; auð borð, void of defenders, of ships that have lost their men in fight, ii. 329; auð skip (= hroðin), all the crew being slain or put to flight, iii. 126.
β. , auðr at yndi, cheerless, distressed, 421; sitja auðum höndum, now used of being idle: in the 22, með a. hendr means empty-handed, without gifts; so also in 437. I Sam. vi. 3, answering to ‘empty’ in the text.
3. s, and ar, [ auds = μακαρία is suggested; it only appears in in compds or derivatives, audags beatus, audagei beatitudo, audagian, beare; eâd, means opes; od = bonum, possessio: it is probably akin to óðal; also feudal ( feoh = fee), alodial]:—riches, wealth, opulence; auð fjár (only in ), abundance, is a phrase; also, auð landa ok fjár, 15; oss er þar mikit af sagt auð þeim, 8, ii. 80, 623. 21; draga saman auð, id. In proverbs, margan hefir auðr apat; auðrinn er valtastr vina, wealth is the ficklest of friends, 77
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