Yrða

auðna

nafnorðkvenkyn
1. u, desolation, 179, bad reading.2. u, [auðit], fortune, and then, like αισα, good luck, one’s good star, happiness, ( heill, hamingja, gæfa, all of them feminines,—good luck personified as a female guardian), in the phrase, a. ræðr, rules; auðna mun því ráða, Fate must settle that, 46, 65; ræðr a. lífi (a proverb), 28; arka at auðnu (or better from auðinn), v. arka, 185, v. 1.; at auðnu, prosperously, 25; blanda úgiptu við a., ii. 61; með auðnu þeirri at þorkatli var lengra lífs auðit, by that good fortune which destined Thorkel for a longer life, 18 (50). Cp. the Craven word aund in the expression I’s aund to’ot, ‘I am ordained to it, it is my fate.’
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3. að, to be ordained by fate; ef honum auðnaði eigi aptr at koma, if it was not ordained by fate that he should come back, ix. 350; sem auðnar, as luck decides, i. 160, iii. 601, 30: with , ef Guð vill at þess auðni, that it shall succeed, i. 159, v. 1., þat is less correct: now in a form, e-m auðnast, one is successful, with following
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
  • cp.compare.
  • perh.perhaps.
  • dat.þágufall (e. dative)
  • adv.atviksorð (e. adverb)
  • COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
  • impers.ópersónulegt (e. impersonal)
  • gen.eignarfall (e. genitive)
  • freq.frequent, frequently.
  • dep.deponent.
  • infin.nafnháttur (e. infinitive)
  • Sd.Svarfdæla saga. (D. II.)
  • Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
  • Lv.Ljósvetninga saga. (D. II.)
  • Orkn.Orkneyinga saga. (E. II.)
  • Sl.Sólarljóð. (A. III.)
  • Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
  • Fb.Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
  • Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
  • Bs.Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)