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hamr

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, hamir, hami, 36, but ham, (where ham, gram, and fram form a rhyme), as also 2, i. 228, all of them poems of the 10th century; [ hama, homa; hamo; hemedi, whence hemd; ham; akin to hamr is camisa, Fr. chemise, with a final s answering to hams below]:—a skin, the skin of birds flayed off with feathers and wings; álptar-hamr, a swan’s skin; fugls-hamr, a bird’s skin; arnar-hamr, an eagle’s skin; gásar-hamr, a goose’s skin, ; hams, , of snakes: ham bera svanir hvítfjaðraðan (of a swan’s skin), i. 471 (in a verse); hleypa hömum (of snakes), to cast the slough, 34; hlátra hamr, laughter’s cover, the breast, 19.
II. shape, in a sense, connected with the phrase, skipta hömum, to change the shape, described in 7, 7, 8, and passim; also the ein-hamr, ham-farir, ham-ramr, ham-stola, hamingja, hamask, ,—an old and widespread superstition found in the popular lore and fairy tales of almost every country;—Óðinn skipti hömum, lá þá búkrinn sem sofinn eðr dauðr, en hann var þá fugl eða dýr, fiskr eða ormr, ok fór á einni svipstund á fjarlæg lönd, , i. 128 ( ); it is described in 8,—þeir hafa orðit fyrir úsköpum, því at úlfa-hamir (wolf-coats) héngu yfir þeim; it tíunda hvert dægr máttu þeir komask ór hömunum, ; þeir fundu konur þrjár ok spunnu lín, þar vóru hjá þeim álptar-hamir þeirra, 88 (prose to ); fjölkyngis-kona var þar komin í álptar-ham, i. 373, 6; víxla hömum, to change skins, assume one another’s shape, 1. 42; Úlf-hamr, Wolf-skin, the nickname of a king, , from being hamramr; manns-hamr, the human skin, 31; hugða ek at væri hamr Atla, methought it was the form or ghost of Atli, 19; jötunn í arnar-ham, a giant in an eagle’s skin, 37, ; í gemlis-ham, id., ; fjaðr-hamr, ; í faxa-ham, in a horse’s skin, i. (in a verse); í trölls-hami, in an ogre’s skin, 36; vals-hamr, a falcon’s skin, (of the goddess Freyja): it remains in usage in phrases, að vera í góðum, íllum, vondum, ham, to be in a good, bad, dismal frame of mind or mood; vera í sínum rétta ham, to be in one’s own good frame of mind; færast í annan ham, to enter into another frame of mind: in western an angry, ill-tempered woman is called hamr, hún er mesti hamr (= vargr): hams-lauss, distempered, furious, used in of a person out of his mind from restlessness or passion, the metaphor from one who cannot recover his own skin, and roves restlessly in search of it, vide passim.
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