Yrða

barr

nafnorðhvorugkyn
[Norse and barr means the needles of the fir or pine, to ‘lauf’ or leaves of the ash, eon; barlind, taxus baccaia, and barskógr, ‘needle-wood,’ fir-wood, ].
I. the needles or spines of a fir-tree; the word is wrongly applied by Snorri, II, who speaks of the ‘barr’ of an ash;— has no trees. In 50 (Norse poem ?) it is correctly used of a pine, hrörnar þöll er stendr þorpi á, hlýrat henni börkr ne b., 16, 11.II. = barley, [ and bear, bere, is four-rowed barley, a coarse kind; bigg in and is six-rowed barley, also a coarse kind: ‘the Bigg-market,’ a street in Newcastle-upon-Tyne: barlog, sweet wort, made of barley, ]; bygg heitir með mönnum, en barr með goðum, men call it ‘bygg,’ but gods ‘bear,’ which shews that barr sounded foreign, and that bygg was the common word, Alvm. 33; (Gl.) 231 has b. under sáðsheiti, v. Common phrases in , as bera ekki sitt barr, of one who will never again bear leaves or flourish, from a withered tree: so Persarum vigui rege bcatior is rendered, lifs míns blómgaðra bar, en buðlungs Persa var, Snot 129. barlegr, vigorous, well-looking.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
  • Swed.Swedish.
  • opp.opposed.
  • cp.compare.
  • i. e.id est.
  • Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
  • Scot.Scottish.
  • North. E.Northern English.
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
  • adj.lýsingarorð (e. adjective)
  • Ivar AasenIvar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.
  • EddaEdda. (C. I.)
  • Hm.Hává-mál. (A. I.)
  • Hkv. Hjörv.Helga-kviða Hjörvarðssonar. (A. II.)
  • Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.