draugr
nafnorðkarlkyn
[ truncus is perhaps akin]:
I. a dry log; (Gl.); this sense, however, only occurs in old poets, in compds such as el-draugr, ben-d., hirði-d., her-d., óðal-d., jó-d., gervi-d., in poetical circumlocutions of a man, 68, 85.II. in prose (as it is now used), a ghost, spirit, the dead inhabitant of a cairn was called draugr, 326, iii. 200, i. 256, 492, 1 Sam. xxviii. 15, 186, 217, 210 (in a verse), () i. 436–438, 2. 49, fsl. () ii. 47 (in a verse); it also occurs in the verse on the Runic stone in Schonen, quoted and explained in Rafn Antiq. Orient. 178, but it is uncertain whether it is here used in the first or second sense.
β. a sluggard, a drone who walks about as a ghost; draugs-ligr, ; drauga-skapr, ; draugast, að, to walk about like a ghost.γ. , vide draughentr above.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- Lat.Latin.
- cp.compare.
- metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
- esp.especially.
- adj.lýsingarorð (e. adjective)
- metric.metrically.
- COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Ld.Laxdæla saga. (D. II.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Bs.Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)
- Stj.Stjórn. (F. I.)
- Róm.Rómverja saga. (E. II.)
- Orkn.Orkneyinga saga. (E. II.)
- Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
- Hervar. S.Hervarar saga. (C. II.)
- Hkv.Helga-kviða Hundingsbana. (A. II.)
- Harð. S.Harðar saga. (D. II.)