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belgr

nafnorðkarlkyn
jar, ir, [ follis; balgs = ασκός; bälg; Dutch balg; belly]:—the skin, taken off whole (of a quadruped; hamr is the skin of a bird, hams that of a snake), nauts-belgr, katt-belgr,otrs-belgr, melrakka-belgr, hafr-belgr, i. 500, 501, ii. 516 (of a bear), 73 (otter): they were used as bags, in which to carry flour (mjölbelgr), butter (smjörbelgr), liquids (vínbelgr), curds (skyrbelgr), herbs (jafnabelgr), or the like, (bulgos Galli sacculos scorteos appellant, Festus); í laupum eða belgjum, 492, 107, and the funny taunt in xi. 157—verið get ek hafa nökkura þá er þaðan munu hafa borið raufóttara belginn ( more of scars and wounds) en svá sem þú hefir borit, því at mér þykir sjá bezt til fallinn at geyma í hveitimjöl, the rebuke of a lady to her sweetheart on his having fled out of battle with whole skin fit to keep flour in it, also Nj.141.
2. bellows (smiðju-belgr), 70, 91.3. the curved part of a letter of the alphabet, 177.II. , letibelgr, a lazy fellow, 12. 53: belgr also denotes a withered, dry old man (with a skin like parchment), with the notion of wisdom, the proverb, opt ór skörpum belg skilin orð koma, and, a little above, opt er gott þat er gamlir kveða, 135; böl vantú bróðir er þú þann belg leystir, opt ór þeim (þurrum?) belg böll ráð koma, … deep schemes often come out of an old skin, 27: the proverb, hafa skal ráð þó ór refsbelg komi, take good advice, even if coming from an old fox-skin! 18. People say in lesa, tala, læra í belg, to read, talk, learn in a bag, to read or talk on foolishly, or to learn by rote; the tale about the orðabelgr, ii. 479; Asbjörnsen, Norse Tales, New Coll. Chr. 1856.
2. gluma,
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