Yrða

dúkr

nafnorðkarlkyn
[ duck; duk; dug; tuch]:—any cloth or texture, 160; vaðmáls-d., lín-d., , a cloak of wadmal, linen, : a carpet, ix. 219: tapestry in a church, fimm dúka ok tvá þar í buna, annarr með rautt silki, 77, vide altaris-dúkr, 20: a neck-kerchief of a lady, dúkr á hálsi, 16.
β. a table-cloth (borð-dúkr); as to the ancient custom of covering the table with a cloth, vide 117, i. 475, 43; and for still earlier times the old heathen poem , where Móðir, the yeoman’s good-wife, covers the table with a ‘marked’ ( stitched) white linen cloth, 28; whilst , the old bondman’s good-wife, puts the food on an uncovered table (verse 4); by a mishap the transcriber of (the only wherein this poem is preserved) has skipped over a verse in the second line of verse 17, so that we are unable to say how Amma, the husbandman’s good-wife, dressed her table: the proverb, eptir dúk og disk, post festum.γ. a towel; at banquets a servant went round to the guests in turn bearing a basin and a towel on the shoulder, 13; to be served first was a mark of honour; also , Har. S. Harðr. 79 (the Danish king and the old woman): a napkin, 45, 655 xvii. 5: belonging to the priest’s vestment, 133; d. ok corporale, 154, Gen. xxiv. 65 (a veil).
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