há
nafnorðhvorugkyn
f, after-math, i. 40, 289, in usage, whence há-bit, the after-math bite or grazing, 407, 503.
II. the hide of a horse or cattle, 135; hross-há, a horse’s hide: nauts-há, a neat’s hide; but gæra of a sheep: þing-há, a ‘thing-circuit,’ district, from heyja (); or is the metaphor taken from an expanded hide?III. in poetry há seems to occur twice in the sense of battle-field or battle, from the fact that duels were fought upon a hide: fara at há, to go to battle, (Sighvat); at há hverju (hverri), Hervar. (in a verse).
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- cp.compare.
- freq.frequent, frequently.
- mod.modern.
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- q. v.quod vide.
- N. G. L.Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
- Gþl.Gulaþings-lög. (B. II.)
- Hm.Hává-mál. (A. I.)
- Ó. H.Ólafs saga Helga. (E. I.)