hemingr
nafnorðkarlkyn
(hömungr, ii. 511), [höm = a shank], the skin of the shanks of a hide; eigi vilda ek sjá þá húð er þú ert einn h. af, iii. 405; in i. 208 referring to a curious old ceremony of adoption:—the adopted son himself and his nearest heirs were to put their feet into a shoe made from the skin of the right leg of a three years old ox, Ruth iv. 7, and Deut. xxv. 9.
II. a name, iii, derived from this mode of adoption.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- cp.compare.
- pr.proper, properly.
- prob.probably.
- N. G. L.Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
- Fb.Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)