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faldr

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[ feald; fold; falte; fald; fold; falda, and faldetta (in Malta); Fr. fauvetta and faudage]:—a fold, of a garment, 9, 13, l. 19, 21, where it is even spelt foldr; in hardly ever used in this sense.
β. the hem of a garment; hún gékk á bak til ok snart fald hans klæða, Luke viii. 44; og fald sinna klæða stækka þeir, Matth. xxiii. 5; og báðu hann, að þeir mætti snerta að eins fald hans fata, Mark vi. 56; kyrtill hlaðbúinn í fald niðr, a kirtle laced down to the hems, iv. 337; allt í fald niðr, (Fr.) 63; klæða-faldr, 36. 9.II. a white linen hood, the stately national head-gear worn by ladies in , of which drawings are given by Eggert pp. 24, 27, Sir Joseph Banks in Hooker’s Travels, the account of the French expedition of the year 1836 , and in almost all books of travels in Iceland. In old Sagas or poems the fald is chiefly recorded in 33 (the dreams of Guðrún Osvifs datter), 25; in the S. 58 the two sisters Frakök and Helga, daughters of the Gaelic Moddan, wore a fald (þá hnyktu þar af sér faldinum, ok reyttu sik), 182. In the (a poem probably composed in the Western Isles. Orkneys) all the three women, , Amma, and Móðir, wore the fald; the words in 16, 19—ok haglega um höfuð typpum, and let us cleverly put a topping on his head, of Thor in bridal disguise—seem to refer to the fald. Bishop , a native of the Orkneys (died 1222), gives the name of ‘fald’ to the helmet; Kormak, in the 10th century, speaks of the ‘old falda.’ In Normandy and Brittany a kind of ‘fald’ is still in use; it may be that it came to through Great Britain, and is of Breton origin; a French fald (Franseiskr, Britain?) is mentioned, iv. 359. In the fald was, up to the end of the last century, worn by every lady,—áðr sérhver fald bar frú | falleg þótti venja sú, a ditty. The ladies tried to outdo each other in wearing a tall fald; keisti faldr, the fald rose high, 26; falda hátt, (the verse); hence the sarcastic name stiku-faldr, a ‘yard-long fald;’ stífan teygja stiku-fald, Þagnarmál 53, a poem of 1728; 1 Tim. ii. 9 is in the version rendered, eigi með földum (πλέγμασι) eðr gulli eðr perlum,—since with ancient women, and in up to a late time, braiding of the hair was almost unknown. In poetry, Iceland with her glaciers is represented as a woman with her fald on; minn hefir faldr fengið fjúka-ryk og kám, Eggert: the sails are called faldar mastra, hoods of the masts, faldar mastra blöktu stilt, 3. 14; hestar hlés hvíta skóku falda trés, id., 10; faldr skýja, the folds of the clouds, , Núm. 1. 11; faldr af degi, of the daybreak, 4. 86; vide krók-faldr, sveigr, a crooked fald. falda-feykir, a magical dance in which the falds flew off the ladies’ heads, iii; Percy’s Fryar and Boy, also the Wonderful Flute in Popular Tales.
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