Noregr
nafnorðkarlkyn
, Noregs; a later Noregis also occurs in ; ‘Nurviag’ on the Jellinge stone; [ Norse Norge, sounded Norre]:—Norway, passim; that the word was sounded Nóregr with a long vowel is seen from rhymes in Vellekla (10th century), Nóregr, fóru; as also Nóregs, stórum, Sighvat (in a poem of 1038 ); the full form Norð-vegr (with ð and w) never occurs in vernacular writers, but only in the Latinised form, Northwagia, which was used by foreign writers (North Germans and Saxons); even the v (Nor-vegr) is hardly found in good vellums, and is never sounded. The etymology of the latter part = vegr is subject to no doubt, and the former part nór is from norðr, the north way; yet another derivation, from nór = a sea-loch, is possible, and is supported by the pronunciation and by the shape of the country, a strip of land between sea and mountains, with many winding fjords. The popular but false etymology of the ancients is from a king Nór ( 12), as Rome from Romulus:—Noregs-höfðingi, -konungr, -menn, -ríki, -veldi, the ruler, king, men, kingdom of Norway, ii. 401, vii. 293, i. 720, ii. 55, 8, Ísl. ii. 234, passim.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- gen.eignarfall (e. genitive)
- mod.modern.
- A. D.Anno Domini.
- prob.probably.
- qs.quasi.
- ch.chapter.
- Laur. S.Laurentius saga. (D. III.)
- Orkn.Orkneyinga saga. (E. II.)
- Grág.Grágás. (B. I.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Bs.Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)
- Sturl.Sturlunga saga. (D. I.)
- Nj.Njála. (D. II.)