Hjarrandi
nafnorðkarlkyn
a, a mythical name, the Demodokus or Orpheus of the old legends, 89: Heorrenda; in old poems called Horant. Hjarranda-ljóð, the lay or tune of H., a charmed tune on the harp, iii. 223 (Bósa S.): a metre in the Ballads (Rímur) is, if we remember right, still in Iceland called Hjarranda-lag, the tune of H. (see Bartsch’s of Kudrun, pp. i. x, xvii, and the sixth Aventiure of Kudrun, inscribed ‘wie suoze Horant sanc’ = how sweet H. sang).
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- Teut.Teutonic.
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Germ.German.
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
- mod.modern.
- Ed.edition, editions, edited.
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)