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dd, [ beade; Old bead-roll, bidding-prayer, bedes-man; biðja, bað, beðið, orare, and bíða, beið, beðit, expectare.]
I. to ask, beg, with the notion of right; almost as a law term, to request [but biðja, orare]; b. e-n e-s, or b. e-m (for one) e-s; beiða griða Baldri, 36, verse 2; beiða sér bjargkviðar búa sína fimm, i. 113, 275; b. sonar bóta, 21; b. e-s af e-m, i. 47: with , in the law term, b. lögbeiðing, to make a lawful request, (); ef hann vill eigi eið vinna þá er hann er beiddr (requested) þá verðr hann sekr um þat tólf mörkurn, þá er hann beiddr (requested) er hann er beðinn (asked), 146: adding út, b. e-s út, to request the payment of a right, , 375; b. til e-s, to request, 656 B.
β. , beiðast, to request on one’s own behalf; b. laga, 76; fars, i. 90; griða, viii. 423, x. 172, 10, 76, 239, i. 11: in active sense, Land. 293; beiðast út réttar sins, to claim as one’s right, 187: with , i. 489: with ‘at’ and a , i. 12, i. 7.
II. [ bede], as a hunting term, to hunt, chase; b. björnu, to hunt bears: beiddr and beiðr, hunted about, 112; hann kvað sveininn hafa verið illa beiddan, 69, 39: the phrase by Kormak, sá er bindr beiðan ( beiddan) hún, seems to mean one who pinions the young hunted bear, as if it were sheep or cattle, 96 (in a verse), symbolical of the earl Sigurd, a mighty Nimrod, who surpassed the wild deer in strength and swiftness; beiðr (= beiddr) for ek heiman at biðja þín Guðrún, 90, seems to mean hunted by love, amore captus: the verse of Kormak,—bands man ek beiða rindi, fascinating, charming woman (?), by whom the poet is made prisoner in love; the compds beiði-hlökk, beiði-sif, beiði-rindr, all epithets of women, , v. beita.Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- cp.compare.
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.English.
- Lat.Latin.
- acc.þolfall (e. accusative)
- freq.frequent, frequently.
- etc.et cetera.
- reflex.reflexive.
- infin.nafnháttur (e. infinitive)
- subj.viðtengingarháttur (e. subjunctive)
- Dan.Danish.
- part.lýsingarháttur (e. participle)
- i. e.id est.
- viz.namely.
- poët.poetically.
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Gs.Grótta-söngr. (A. II.)
- Grág.Grágás. (B. I.)
- Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- K. Þ. K.Kristinn-réttr Þorláks ok Ketils = Kristinna-laga-þáttr. (B. I.)
- Gþl.Gulaþings-lög. (B. II.)
- Ld.Laxdæla saga. (D. II.)
- Eg.Egils saga. (D. II.)
- Gísl.Gísla saga. (D. II.)
- Fs.Forn-sögur. (D. II.)
- Mirm.Mirmants saga. (G. II.)
- Am.Atla-mál. (A. II.)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.