guðspjall
nafnorðhvorugkynguð-spjall
, the form goðspill, 24; guðspillum, 656 A. i. 10: [ godspell; gospel, gôð spell, a translation of the εὐ-αγγέλιον; godd-spell—goddspell onn Ennglissh nemmnedd iss god ( good) word and god tiþennde, god errnde … goddspell annd forrþi maȝȝ itt wel, god errnde ben ȝehatenn, Introd. 157 ; (the form godd-spell, not godspell, shews that at the time of the Ormulum the root vowel had become short in pronunciation.) The word was in borrowed from English missionaries, and remains the only country where the Evangel is called Gospel; Danes, Swedes, and Norsemen, as well as Germans, use the Greek word. The true etymological sense, however, was lost, probably because the root vowel had become short in by the time that the word was transplanted to , so that guðspjall was understood to mean not good spell, but God’s spell]:—gospel; í þann tima er lokið var guðspjalli, 119 (the gospel in the service-book); pistlar ok guðspjöll, epistles and gospels, 1; með tíu laga boðorðum ok fjórum guðspjöllum, 13.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.English.
- i. e.id est.
- Gr.Greek.
- Ormul.Ormulum.
- sqq.following.
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- Scandin.Scandinavia, Scandinavian.
- COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
- Greg.Gregory. (F. II.)
- Ó. H.Ólafs saga Helga. (E. I.)
- Vm.Vilkins-máldagi. (J. I.)
- Mar.Maríu saga. (F. III.)