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brjóst

nafnorðhvorugkyn
(brysti, ), [ brusts, = στηθος and σπλάγχνα; breost; breast; briost, ; bröst; bryst, ; brust, ]:—the breast; b. ok kviðr, 579, 95; önd í brjósti, 26; uber, a woman’s breast, in , fæða barn á brjósti, feed a bairn at the breast, i. 666, 18, 429: chiefly in = mammae; hafa barn á brjóstum; brjósta-mjólk, milk from the breast; brjósta-mein, ulcus or abscessus mammarum, ix. 202; brjósta-verkr, mastodynia (of women), id.
II. with the ancients the breast was thought to be the abode of the mind, as well as of feeling, hence it is called hug-borg, mun-strönd, reið rýnis, minnis knörr, , the castle, strand, wain, ship of mind, of thought, of memory, , vide , 105, 1, 18; thus brjóst means feeling, temper, disposition; hafa ekki b. til e-s, to have no heart for it; kenna í brjósti um e-n, to ‘feel in the breast’ for one, feel compassion for; mun hann vera þrályndr sem faðir hans, en hafa brjóst verra, a harder heart, iii. 144, ii. 70, 41; láta eigi allt fyrir brjósti brenna, of a hardy, daring man; e-m rennr í brjóst, of a light slumber, of one sick.
β. the front, of a wave, i. 484; b. fylkingar, of a line, 268, v. 77.γ. the breast-work or protector of one; b. ok hlífskjöldr, 95; bera (vera) b. fyrir e-m, to be one’s defender, to shield one, vii. 263, x. 235; the phrase, vinna eið fyrir brjósti e-s, on one’s behalf, 484.
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