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dís

nafnorðkvenkyn
, disir, and an older but obsolete form jó-dís, which remains in the earliest poems, jódís (the sister of) úlfs ok Nara = Hela, Ýt. 7; but Loga dís, the sister of Logi, 9; 109: it also remains in the name Jódís,—the explanation given in 183 (from jór, equus, and dís) has no philological value, being only the poet’s fancy: [ idis = virgo; ides; Grimm ingeniously suggests that the Idistaviso in Tacitus may be corrupt for Idisiaviso, the virgin-mead, from idis and viso = wiese.]
I. a sister, Ýt. ; heitir ek systir, dís, jódís, a sister is called dis and jódís, 109; dís skjöldunga, the sister of kings, 14.II. generally a goddess or priestess (?), a female guardian-angel, who follows every man from his birth, and only leaves him in the hour of death, the very interesting passages, 114, 184, 185, , ii. 192–195 ( 148); hence the phrase, ek kveð aflima orðnar þér dísir, the dísir have left thee, thou art a lost man, 26; also the phrase, heillum horfinn.
2. a maid in general, 3. in as a name, in compds, Jó-dís, Her-dís, Val-dís, Vig-dís, Hjör-dís,
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Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
  • pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
  • cp.compare.
  • Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
  • fem.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
  • pr.proper, properly.
  • Hel.Heliand.
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • Germ.German.
  • l. c.loco citato.
  • poët.poetically.
  • freq.frequent, frequently.
  • etc.et cetera.
  • COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
  • EddaEdda. (C. I.)
  • SkáldaSkálda. (H. I.)
  • Bkv.Brynhildar-kviða. (A. II.)
  • Hallfr. S.Hallfreðar saga. (D. II.)
  • Fs.Forn-sögur. (D. II.)
  • Þorst. Síðu H.Þorsteins saga Síðu-Hallssonar. (D. II.)
  • Anal.Analecta. (D. II.)
  • Gísl.Gísla saga. (D. II.)
  • Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
  • Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
  • Am.Atla-mál. (A. II.)
  • Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.