baldr
nafnorðkarlkyn
rs, [ baldor, princeps, seems to be a different root from the balþs, bald, which answers to the ball- or bald- without r], = princeps, the best, foremost; in compds as mann-baldr, her-baldr, fólk-baldr.
β. the god Balder, because of his noble disposition, . Baldrs-brá, Balder’s eye-brow, cotida foetida, ballebraa and baldurbraa, pyrethrum inodorum, 15; the B. is there called the fairest and whitest of all flowers (allra grasa hvítast). Perhaps the eye-bright or euphrasy,,—the Baldrs-brá, if we remember rightly, resembles the ‘ox-eye’ or ‘dog-daisy.’
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Goth.Gothic.
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- prop.proper, properly.
- Lat.Latin.
- meton.metonomy, metonomically.
- f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- botan.botanically.
- Engl.English.
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Ivar AasenIvar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.