heipt
nafnorðkvenkyn
better heift, [ haifsts = ἔρις, ἐριθεία, ἀγών, haifstjan = ἀγωνίζεσθαι; akin is heftig, whence hæftig]:—the earliest sense is feud, deadly war; vinna e-m heipt, to wage war (do battle) against one, 10; deila heiptir, to wage deadly feud, 1. 44; senda e-m heiptar-boð, to challenge one to combat, iii. 27 (in a verse): hereto belong such epithets as, heiptar-nýtr, heiptar-strangr, heipt-bráðr, heipt-fíkinn, heipt-glaðr, heipt-mildr, heipt-minnigr, heipt-móðr, heipt-örr, heipt-snarr, = mighty in war, warlike, all of them used as ‘ornamental’ epithets of praise, vide : as also heiptar-hvessir, a war kindler, id.
β. bane; heipt hrísungs, the bane of a copse, fire, Ýt. 19: in the old poems and heipt seems used in a peculiar sense, an imprecation, spell, 136, 152, 12, 36, and in the Máhlíðingavísur.2. evil doings, injury; eiga e-m heiptir at gjalda, i. 85, (in a verse); gjalda e-m harma ok heiptir, 214.II. deadly hatred, spite; halda heift í hjarta, 50; heipt ok harðindi, ill-will and tyranny, vi. 42; meir af h. en ást, xi. 310; hafa heipt á e-m, to hate one.
2. fury; þá svall heipt í Högna, H. swelled with fury, Bragi.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
- Ulf.Ulfilas.
- cp.compare.
- Germ.German.
- mod.modern.
- Dan.Danish.
- poët.poetically.
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- i. e.id est.
- viz.namely.
- perh.perhaps.
- COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
- Vkv.Völundar-kviða. (A. II.)
- Hkv.Helga-kviða Hundingsbana. (A. II.)
- Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Hm.Hává-mál. (A. I.)
- Sdm.Sigrdrífu-mál. (A. II.)
- Eb.Eyrbyggja saga. (D. II.)
- Hkr.Heimskringla. (E. I.)
- Korm.Kormaks saga. (D. II.)
- Ó. H.Ólafs saga Helga. (E. I.)
- Hom.Homiliu-bók. (F. II.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)