KONR1
nafnorðkarlkyn
m., pl. konir, acc. pl. koni, the gen. is not recorded; this word is solely poetical, and used by poets of the 10th and 11th centuries, but since disused; it is the masc. answering to kona (q. v.):—a man of gentle or noble birth; hve þik kalla konir? how do men call thee? Hkv. Hjörv. 14; koni (acc.) óneisa, the gentle men, Hkv. 1. 23; dulsa konr, Ýt. 2; of mæran kon, of a valiant man, Edda (in a verse); átt-konr, q. v.
2. a royal kinsman; konungmanna konr, kinsman of kings, Ísl. ii. 229 (in a verse); hildinga konr, siklinga konr, kinsman of heroes, Lex. Poët.; Yngva konr, kinsman of Yngvi, Skv. 2. 14; rögna konr = Gr. διογενής, Vellekla; bragna konr, Ó. H. (in a verse); Ellu konr, kinsman of Ella, Fms. vi. 64 (in a verse); haukstalla konr, Edda (in a verse); sælinga konr, kinsman of the wealthy, Fms. xi. (in a verse); Heita konr, kinsman of the sea king H., Arnórr, cp. Orkn. ch. 3; konr Sigmundar, son of S., Skv. 2. 13.
II. as a pr. name, Rm.