aktaumr
nafnorðkarlkynak-taumr
in ar, lines (taumar) to trim (aka) the sail, distinguished from höfuðbendur, the stays of the mast, perhaps the braces of a sail (used by Egilsson to ύπέραι in 5. 260), Þórarinn stýrði ok hafði aktaumana um herðar sér, þvíat þröngt var á skipinu, had the braces round his shoulders, because the boat was blocked up with goods, 56; the phrase, sitja í aktaumum, to manage the sail; ef ek sigli með landi fram, ok sit ek í aktaumum, þá skal engi snekkja tvítugsessa sigla fyrir mér, eða ek vilja svipta (reef the sail) fyr en þeir, v. 337; reiði slitnaði, svá at bæði gékk í sundr höfuðbendur ok aktaumar, iii. 118; reki segl ofan, en a. allir slitni, 204; slitnuðu höfuðbendur ok aktaumar, 5, (Gl.) That the braces were generally two may be inferred from the words við aktaum hvárntveggja hálf mörk, i. 199.
2. , sitja í aktaumum, to have the whole management of a thing; mun yðr þat eigi greitt ganga ef þér erut einir í aktaumum, if you are alone in the management of it, Ísl. ii. 49; einir um hituna is now used in the same sense. (The yoke-lines, as aktaumar is sometimes interpreted (as in the of the ), are now called stjórntaumar. Aktanmr is obsolete. See ‘Stones of Scotland,’ tab. liv. )
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- esp.especially.
- pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
- transl.translation.
- metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
- Engl.English.
- Lat.Latin.
- sqq.following.
- Od.Odysseifs-kvæði, prose, 1829.
- Ld.Laxdæla saga. (D. II.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
- Bær.Bærings saga. (G. II.)
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- N. G. L.Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)