eyrr
nafnorðkvenkyn
, eyri, eyrar, and eyri, eyrar, [aurr; öre; ör: it remains also in local names, as Eyrar-sund, the Sound; Helsing-ör, Elsinore, Helsingja-eyrr]:—a gravelly bank, either of the banks of a river (ár-eyrar, dals-cyrar) or of small tongues of land running into the sea, v. 19, 196, 85, ii. 355, i. 242, and passim in local names, in , vide : eyrar-oddi and eyrar-tangi, a, the point or tongue of an eyrr, 93, ii. 354, 314, 47; Eyrar-maðr, a man from the place E., iii. 11, 9; Eyr-byggjar, id., hence Eyrbyggja Saga, the history of that name, , , i. 409. A great meeting used to be held at Haleyr, now Copenhagen (P. A. Munch), 2, hence Eyrar-floti, a, the fleet at Eyrar, 78. Another meeting was held in Drondheim (Niðarós) on the gravel banks of the river Nid, hence Eyrar-þing, , vi. 24, viii. 49, ix. 91, 449,
II. duels usually took place on a gravel bank or on an island, hence the phrase, ganga út á eyri, to go to fight, Ísl. ii. 256 (in a verse); mér hefir stillir stökt til eyrar, the king has challenged me to fight a duel, 33.
β. in poetry used in circumlocutions of a woman,
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- mod.modern.
- gen.eignarfall (e. genitive)
- dat.þágufall (e. dative)
- acc.þolfall (e. accusative)
- pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
- Dan.Danish.
- Swed.Swedish.
- Scandin.Scandinavia, Scandinavian.
- qs.quasi.
- esp.especially.
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- ch.chapter.
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- etc.et cetera.
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Eg.Egils saga. (D. II.)
- Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
- Grág.Grágás. (B. I.)
- N. G. L.Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
- Landn.Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Gísl.Gísla saga. (D. II.)
- Jb.Jóns-bók. (B. III.)
- Háv.Hávarðar saga. (D. II.)
- Sturl.Sturlunga saga. (D. I.)
- Band.Banda-manna saga. (D. II.)
- Eb.Eyrbyggja saga. (D. II.)
- Bs.Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)
- Fær.Færeyinga saga. (E. II.)
- Hkv. Hjörv.Helga-kviða Hjörvarðssonar. (A. II.)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.