gálgi
nafnorðkarlkyn
a, [ renders σταυρός by galga; gealga; gallows; galgo; galgen; Dan.-Swed. galge]:—the gallows; in olden times they were worked by a lever, and the culprit was hauled up (spyrna gálga), vii. 13; hence also the phrase, hengja á hæsta gálga, festa upp, and the like, vide S. 7; an old law phrase, á gálga ok gren, on gallows and green tree (Fr.), as trees were used for gallows ( the ‘gallows-tree’); reisa, höggva gálga, 436, 46, 37, 55, 128: in poetry (vide ) the gallows are called the horse of Sigar, from the love tale of the Danish hero of that name: the cross is now and then called gálgi, S., and even in writers (Vidal.), but very rarely, and only in rhetorical phrases.
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Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- Ulf.Ulfilas.
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.English.
- Hel.Heliand.
- Germ.German.
- ch.chapter.
- Swed.Swedish.
- allit.alliteration, alliterative.
- cp.compare.
- e. g.exempli gratia.
- mod.modern.
- eccl.ecclesiastical.
- COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Gautr.Gautreks saga. (C. II.)
- Orkn.Orkneyinga saga. (E. II.)
- Ó. H.Ólafs saga Helga. (E. I.)
- Am.Atla-mál. (A. II.)
- Grett.Grettis saga. (D. II.)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Mar.Maríu saga. (F. III.)