höttr
nafnorðkarlkyn
, hattar, hetti, höttu, a later form hattr, 13, 407, 32, 46, 55, 46, as also in usage; [the hôd, hood, huot, Dutch hoed, hut may perhaps be identical; but hæt, , , and hat certainly answer to the old höttr, also hetta, ]:—a hood, in olden times only a cowl fastened to a cloak, as is seen from numerous instances. i. 149, ii. 72, viii. 368, x. 225, 229, 301, 375, 407, ii. 132: a cowl of felt, þófa-höttr, 13, 179.
2. of a gorgeous foreign hood or turban from the east, xi. 77, 85; called Gerzkr (Russian) in 46, 55, or Girskr (Greek) in 46; Danskr höttr, a Danish hood, : a hat in the sense was unknown to the men of old; even the hat-like helmet was called stál-húfa, a steel cap, not stál-höttr.II. in poetry the head is called hattar land, hauðr, -stallr, -fell, -steði, the land, knoll, fell, stithy of the hood; or hatt-staup, a hat-knoll, : Odin is represented wearing a hött, and so the helmet is called the hood of Odin, ; as also Ála höttr: the vaulted sky is foldar höttr = earth’s hood, : dular-h., huldar-h., a hiding hood, hood of disguise. hattar-maðr, a hooded man, man in disguise, 272; Síð-höttr, ‘Deep-hood,’ was a favourite name of Odin from his travelling in disguise, Robin Hood.III. a name,
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- acc.þolfall (e. accusative)
- pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
- mod.modern.
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.English.
- O. H. G.Old High German.
- Germ.German.
- Dan.Danish.
- Swed.Swedish.
- cp.compare.
- q. v.quod vide.
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- etc.et cetera.
- pr.proper, properly.
- Dropl.Droplaugar-sona saga. (D. II.)
- Eg.Egils saga. (D. II.)
- Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
- Gísl.Gísla saga. (D. II.)
- O. H. L.Ólafs saga Helga Legendaria. (E. I.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Grág.Grágás. (B. I.)
- Ó. H.Ólafs saga Helga. (E. I.)
- Ad.Arinbjarnar-drápa. (A. III.)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Rd.Reykdæla saga. (D. II.)
- Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)