baðmr
nafnorðkarlkyn
[ bagms; beam, hornbeam; baum], a tree, only used in poetry, v. , never in prose or common language, and alien to all idioms: it seems to be used of the branches of a tree (in flower); hár b., the high tree, 18; á berki skal þær rista ok á baðmi viðar, 11 (referring to the lim-rúnar). Even used = gremium, sinus; er þá Véa ok Vilja | létztu þér Viðris kvæn | báða í baðm um tekið, when thou tookest both of them into thy arms, embraced them both, 26; vaxi þér á baðmi (bosom) barr, 16. Cp. hróðrbaðmr (barmr is a bad reading), 8, a fatal twig.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- Goth.Gothic.
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- cp.compare.
- Engl.English.
- Germ.German.
- Scandin.Scandinavia, Scandinavian.
- prop.proper, properly.
- metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Vsp.Völuspá. (A. I.)
- Sdm.Sigrdrífu-mál. (A. II.)
- Ls.Loka-senna. (A. I.)
- Hkv. Hjörv.Helga-kviða Hjörvarðssonar. (A. II.)
- Vtkv.Vegtams-kviða. (A. I.)