Yrða

fróðr

lýsingarorð
[ frôþs = φρόνιμος, σοφός, σώφρων, συνετός; frôd; frôd]:—knowing, learned, well-instructed; fróðr, er margkunnigr er, xi. 413; hón var fróð at mörgu, 194; þat er sögn fróðra manna, Ísl. ii. 206; verða fróðari um e-t, 37; at Finnum tveim er hér eru fróðastir (greatest wizards), i. 8; fás er fróðum vant, little is lacking to the knowing, the ‘knowledge is power,’ 107: of books, containing much information, instructive, bækr beztar ok fróðastar, i. 429.
β. in some passages in fróðr seems to mean clever, 7, 27, 30, 6l, 107; þá nam ek at frævask ok fróðr vera, 142; fróðir menn, knowing men, Ýt. 6; fróð regin, the wise powers, 26; enn fróði jötunn, 30, 33, 35:—in some few compds (in which it seems to be used almost = prúðr, brave, valiant, as böð-f., eljun-f.) the true meaning is skilled in war ( the δαιφρων); sann-f., truly informed; óljúgfróð, 4; ú-fróðr, ignorant, = unfróþs, which uses to translate ἄφρων, ἀνόητος; sögu-fróðr, skilled in old lore. As fróðr chiefly refers to historical knowledge, ‘hinn Fróði’ was an appellation given to the old chroniclers—Ari Fróði, Brandr Fróði, Sæmundr Fróði, Kolskeggr Fróði, who lived between 1050 and 1150 But the historians of the next age were seldom called by this name: Odd Munk (of the end of the 12th century) is only once called so, (Ing. S. fine); Snorri (of the 13th) twice, 1241 in a single , and iii. 98, but in a part of the Saga probably not written by Sturla himself; Sturla (who died in 1284) is never called by that name; and the only real exception is Styrmir ‘Fróði’ (who died in 1245), though he least deserved the name. Of foreign writers the gave the name Fróði to Bede ( ), whom they held in great honour.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • adj.lýsingarorð (e. adjective)
  • Ulf.Ulfilas.
  • Hel.Heliand.
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • cp.compare.
  • Engl.English.
  • poët.poetically.
  • Gr.Greek.
  • Goth.Gothic.
  • Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
  • A. D.Anno Domini.
  • viz.namely.
  • MS.manuscript, manuscripts.
  • pref.preface.
  • Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
  • Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
  • Sks.Konungs Skugg-sjá. (H. II.)
  • Hm.Hává-mál. (A. I.)
  • Bs.Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)
  • Vþm.Vafþrúðnis-mál. (A. I.)
  • Íb.Íslendinga-bók. (D. I.)
  • Ann.Íslenzkir Annálar. (D. IV.)
  • Sturl.Sturlunga saga. (D. I.)
  • Landn.Landnáma. (D. I.)