Yrða

fors

nafnorðhvorugkyn
1. wrath, rage, ire; snúa fors í frið, grimd í grið, 655 xxxii. 24, ii. 97; með forsi, haughtily, iii. 144, 13. 2; ferr erkibiskup í fors mikit, he fell into great wrath, xi. 441; fors ok atköst, iii. 91; fors ok ílska, Stat. 398.
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2. foss, , akin to the preceding word and forr, [Swed.-Dan. foss, force; a test word of language and origin; the curious passage in Constant. Porph. De Admin. Imperii, 9, where the Byzantine author gives some names of waterfalls in Russia in two languages, ρωσιστί and σκλαβινιστί (Russian and Slavonic), with a Greek translation; ρωσιστί, a waterfall, being called βορσί or φόρος ( οὐλ-βορσί = Hólm-fors, βαρου-φόρος = Báru-fors), whereas σκλαβινιστί it is called πραχ, porog or prag: Constantine in another passage states that the Russians were Teutonic or ‘Franks:’ the Garðar (Russia Minor) of that time was in fact a country; even the name Russia is by some (P. A. Munch) explained as , afterwards adopted for the whole empire; it was still regarded so by the Byzantine authors of the 10th century, as opposed to Slavonic]:—a ‘force,’ waterfall, 291, 292; fors mikill er Sarpr heitir, 49, 277, : in many local names, Skóga-f. in southern ; Gýgjar-f. in the north (Goða-f. is a corrupt form, Þorláks-kver, p. 288, and 68, 69, whence the name); Gull-f., Gold-force, a name in western 2. a brook, stream; this sense is curious, and peculiar to the (by bishop Brand, a native of south-eastern ); it is well suited to the district of Skaptafells-sýsla, where all brooks are torrents rushing from glaciers into the ocean; til forsins Bison, 387. Judges iv. 13; hann grípr einn stein upp ór forsinum, 227; Davíð tók fimm steina ór einum forsi, 464. 1 Sam. xvii. 40; við forsinn Besor, 490. 1 Sam. xxx. 9; yfir fors Cedron, 527. 2 Sam. xv. 23; af forsi drakk hann á götu, 656 C. 2: in the old poem fors is evidently used in the same sense; á sér hón ansask aurgum forsi, 31; falla forsar, 58. This idiom perhaps gives a hint as to the native place of this poem; falla forsum, to fall in torrents, ii. (in a verse). fors-fall, a ‘forcefall,’ torrent, 32, 17, iv. 361.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
  • COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
  • mod.modern.
  • m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
  • prob.probably.
  • North. E.Northern English.
  • Scandin.Scandinavia, Scandinavian.
  • cp.compare.
  • ch.chapter.
  • e. g.exempli gratia.
  • Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
  • i. e.id est.
  • v. l.varia lectio.
  • freq.frequent, frequently.
  • Bs.Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)
  • Sturl.Sturlunga saga. (D. I.)
  • Pass.Passiu-Sálmar.
  • Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
  • Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
  • Landn.Landnáma. (D. I.)
  • Ó. H.Ólafs saga Helga. (E. I.)
  • Grett.Grettis saga. (D. II.)
  • Stj.Stjórn. (F. I.)
  • Vsp.Völuspá. (A. I.)