Yrða

gler

nafnorðhvorugkyn
[ glæs; glass; glass; early glar; the and glas seem to be borrowed from ; distinguish between gler (glass) and glas (a small glass bottle); but s seems to be the original consonant, and the word is akin to Glasir, glys, glæsa, ]:—the word originally meant amber, ‘succinum’ quod ipsi ( the Germans) glaesum vocant, Tacit. 45; glass beads for ornament are of early use; quantities are found in the great deposits (in cairns and fens) of the earliest Iron Age, but only in a single instance in a deposit of the Brass Age (which ends about the beginning of our era), vide for Nord. Oldk. 1868, p. 118; and such is the sense of the word in the three places that it occurs in old heathen poems: magical Runes were written on glass, 17: , nú er grjót þat at gleri orðit, now those stones are turned into gler, of an altar ‘glassed’ with sacrificial blood, Hdl, 5; also the curious reading, bresta í gleri, to be shivered, to break into shivers, 29,—the reading of , ‘í tvau,’ is a gloss on the obsolete phrase:—glæs also occurs twice or thrice in poetry, but not in the oldest, as Beowulf, vide Grein. For window-panes glass is of much later date, and came into use with the building of cathedrals: a Danish cathedral with glass panes is mentioned in S. 58 (year 1085); in the first panes brought into the country were probably those presented by bishop Paul to the cathedral at Skalholt in the year 1195; the ancient halls and dwellings had no windows in the walls, but were lighted by louvres and by round openings (gluggr) in the roof, covered with the caul (of a new-born calf, called skjall or líkna-belgr) stretched on a frame or a hoop and called skjár: these are still used in farms; and distinguish between the round small caul windows (skjár or skjá-gluggar) and glass windows (gler-gluggar):—háll sem gler, slippery as glass, of ice, 144: in and later writings, 127, 424, 21, iii. 393: in the saying, sjaldan brýtr gæfu-maðr gler.
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Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • Engl.English.
  • Germ.German.
  • Dan.Danish.
  • mod.modern.
  • Swed.Swedish.
  • Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
  • q. v.quod vide.
  • viz.namely.
  • ch.chapter.
  • metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
  • cp.compare.
  • eccl.ecclesiastical.
  • COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
  • Ann.Íslenzkir Annálar. (D. IV.)
  • Sdm.Sigrdrífu-mál. (A. II.)
  • Hým.Hýmis-kviða. (A. I.)
  • Kb.Konungs-bók. (B. I, C. I, etc.)
  • Knytl.Knytlinga saga. (E. I.)
  • Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
  • Hom.Homiliu-bók. (F. II.)
  • Sks.Konungs Skugg-sjá. (H. II.)
  • Vm.Vilkins-máldagi. (J. I.)
  • Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)