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drótt

nafnorðkvenkyn
I. the sill or beam above a door, also a door-post (dyra-drótt).II. household, people, 24, (inn-drótt, sal-drótt, ); dyggvar dróttir, good, trusty people, 63; dverga d., the dwarf-people, 9; d. Írskrar þjóðar, the Irish people; Engla d., English persons, , ; öll drótt, all people, 2. 48: twenty people make a drótt, 108.
2. the king’s body-guard; ga-drauhts, by which word renders the στρατιώτης (drjûgan, drauh = στρατεύειν); dright; the Scandinavian drótt thus answers to the comitatus of Tacitus, 13, 14, in the Saga time called ‘hirð.’ Drótt is obsolete in prose, but occurs in 20,—áðr vóru þeir ( the kings) dróttnar kallaðir, en konur þeirra dróttningar, en drótt hirðsveitin: , víg-drótt, her-d., fólk-d., hjálm-d., , warriors.
III. a name, 20; drós.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
  • etc.et cetera.
  • esp.especially.
  • cp.compare.
  • Goth.Gothic.
  • Ulf.Ulfilas.
  • Gr.Greek.
  • pret.þátíð (e. preterite)
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • Germ.German.
  • ch.chapter.
  • viz.namely.
  • poët.poetically.
  • fem.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
  • pr.proper, properly.
  • Vþm.Vafþrúðnis-mál. (A. I.)
  • Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
  • Vsp.Völuspá. (A. I.)
  • Hkv.Helga-kviða Hundingsbana. (A. II.)
  • EddaEdda. (C. I.)
  • Hkr.Heimskringla. (E. I.)
  • Yngl. S.Ynglinga saga. (C. II.)