Yrða

heiðinn

lýsingarorð
[ hæðen; heathen; heidan; heide and heidnisch; hedensk; this word is derived not from heiðr, a heath, but from ἐθνικός as used in the ; in a single passage, Mark vii. 26, renders γυνὴ Έλληνίς by qino haiþno; it is even possible that the paganus, which, according to Du Cange, only appears after 365, may be merely a translation of the Teutonic word under the notion that haiþan was derived from haiþi = a heath, open country ( ἀγρός, pagus): then, as haiþi was pronounced much like ἔθνος, the true etymology of heiðinn was lost; and so the long vowel and the aspirated initial may be accounted To the worshippers of Thor and Odin the name heathen was unknown; Christians were the first that used the word, and we meet with it first in of Eyvind, who speaks of heiðin goð, heathen gods; heiðinn stallr, a heathen altar, , by the missionary Þorvald, 982; it is also used by Hallfred and Sighvat; heiðinn dómr, heathendom, Sighvat; heiðnar stjörnur, heathen stars, : the verse in Ísl. ii. 50 is spurious (as are all the verses of that Saga); so also the verses in 84 (), and in Bergbúa-þáttr, where the word heiðinn is put into the mouth of a ghost and a giant, in songs which are merely a poetical fiction of later times. The word heiðingi for wolf is curious: probably it is merely a phrase from heiðinn, gentilis, and if so, it gives an additional evidence to the age of the poem Atla-kviða; which poem, from its nickname the ‘Greenlandish,’ cannot be older than the discovery of Greenland, 985]:—heathen, gentilis, ethnicus, the Sagas passim, 101–106, , , , : a child not christened was in olden times called heathen, i. 340; heiðit morð, the murder of an infant not christened, 339: in usage, a boy or girl before confirmation is called heathen; this improper use of the word is caused by a confusion between baptism and confirmation: so in Norway a woman between child-birth and churching is called heathen ().
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • adj.lýsingarorð (e. adjective)
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • Engl.English.
  • O. H. G.Old High German.
  • Germ.German.
  • Dan.Danish.
  • prob.probably.
  • Gr.Greek.
  • Ulf.Ulfilas.
  • eccl.ecclesiastical.
  • A. D.Anno Domini.
  • Lat.Latin.
  • for.foreign.
  • metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
  • esp.especially.
  • ch.chapter.
  • etc.et cetera.
  • mod.modern.
  • Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
  • N. T.New Testament.
  • Hkm.Hákonar-mál. (A. III.)
  • Kristni S.Kristni saga. (D. I. III.)
  • Sól.Sólarljóð. (A. III.)
  • Landn.Landnáma. (D. I.)
  • Hb.Hauks-bók. (H. IV.)
  • Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
  • Ó. T.Ólafs saga Tryggvasonar. (E. I.)
  • Ó. H.Ólafs saga Helga. (E. I.)
  • N. G. L.Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
  • Ivar AasenIvar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.