Yrða

dalr2

nafnorðkarlkyn
, dalar, a bow. ; this word has a different inflexion, and seems to be of a different root from the above; hence in poetry the hand is called dal-nauð, the need of (force applied to) the bow,’ and dal-töng, as the bow is bent by the hand.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
  • gen.eignarfall (e. genitive)
  • poët.poetically.
  • Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.