flug
nafnorðhvorugkyn
, but in old writers usually, if not always, flugr, [ fljúga I]:—flight, volatus; fuglanna flug (), 17; þá beinir hann fluginn, 60; (hann) dró arnsúg í flugnum, 46; í sínum flug, 270: the phrase, á flugi, in the flight; fugl á flugi, a bird of flight, xii. 62; mætir hón hamrinun á flugi, 58; á ferð ok flugi, ‘faring and flying,’ all in motion, i. 6, Núm. 2. 99: , var hón öll á flugi, she was all in a flutter, ii. 335.
II. = flótti, fuga, flight, only in poetry; trauðr flugar, unwilling to flee, bold, 1. 52, xi. 186 (in a verse); flugar-trauðr, bold, 1. 54; flug-skjarr, flug-styggr, flug-trauðr, flug-varr, , flug-þverrir, firm in battle, unflinching, all epithets of heroes, III. a sheer precipice; hann er svá hár, ok þat flug fyrir ofan at …, ii. 231; hence fluga-björg, and fluga-hamarr ( flug-hamarr), precipices, i. 330, viii. 18. 49, iii. 408, ii. 231: also of a current, fluga-fors, , ; fluga-straumr, a rapid vortex, eddy, 67 (in a verse):—other compds in use, flug-beittr, keen-edged, as a razor; flug-gáfaðr, flug-næmr, flug-skarpr, keen, acute, quick to learn; flug-háll, (flug-hálka, u, ), very slippery; flug-ríkr, immensely rich.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- cp.compare.
- Lat.Latin.
- acc.þolfall (e. accusative)
- metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
- adj.lýsingarorð (e. adjective)
- neut.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
- mod.modern.
- f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- Stj.Stjórn. (F. I.)
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Od.Odysseifs-kvæði, prose, 1829.
- Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
- Fb.Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
- Hkv.Helga-kviða Hundingsbana. (A. II.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Bs.Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)
- Mag.Magus saga. (G. II.)