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hestr

nafnorðkarlkyn
a horse, [this word is a form of hengist, hengstr; hengest; hengist; hengst, whence Swed.-Dan. hingst; again, häst, hest: in old writers hestr mostly means a stallion, whereas hross ( horse) denotes a gelding or any horse]:—a stallion, to merr, a mare, i. 503, 190, 5, 98 (hestar þrír ok mer-hross eitt); h. grár með fjórum merum, Ísl. ii. 213; sá hestr var sonr Hvítings, var alhvítr at lit en merarnar allar rauðar, en annarr sonr Hvítings var í Þórarínsdal, ok var sá ok hvítr en merarnar svartar, 55: a steed, ii. 224: a horse , 4, 74; lið á hestum, horsemen, x. 31, passim. The ancients valued high breeding and variety of colour in their horses, which were favourite gifts, see Gunnl. 5, , 23, vi. 383, 384; for steeds and horsemanship see 6, 23, 33, 3. 8, S. 9, 3, 4, 32, 34, also 6, 7, 16, 13, 23, vi. 323: the horse was sacred to Frey (the god of light and the sun), 5, 34, i. 401 ( 322), Freyfaxi: for the steeds of the Sun, Day, and Night, see 37, 12, 14: for the steeds of the gods, 30: for poetical and mythical names, (Gl.) and the fragment of the poem Þorgrímsþula, , Bugge 332–334: for Sleipnir, the eight-legged steed of Odin, , 44: for horse-fights see the references etja, to which add 31, 23:—vatna-hestr, a water-horse, = nykr in popular tales, 2, 10, and ; but also a good swimmer, góðr vatna-hestr; skeið-h., reið-h., a riding horse; klár-h., púls-h., áburðar-h., a hack, cart-horse, pack-horse; stóð-h., a stud-horse: sækja, beizla, gyrða, söðla, járna hest, to fetch, bridle, gird, saddle, shoe a horse; also, leggja á, to saddle; spretta af, to take the saddle off; teyma hest or hafa hest í togi, to lead a horse; flytja h., to put a pony out to grass; hepla h., to tether a pony: a pony is gúðgengr (), vakr, þýðr; and the reverse, íllgengr, hastr, klárgengr, harðgengr.
II. phrases, há-hestr, a high horse; ríða háhest (a child’s play), also called ríða hákúk, to ride on one another’s shoulders, ride ‘pick-a-back;’ kinn-hestr, a ‘cheek-horse,’ a box on the ear; lýstr hana kinnhest, hón kvaðsk þann hest muna skyldu ok launa ef hón mætti, 75; þá skal ek nú, segir hón, muna þér kinnhestinn, þann er þú laust mik, 116, 27: the gallows is called the horse of Odin, whence gefa e-m hest, to give one a horse, hang one, i. 238, the verse in 26.
β. the local name of a horse-shaped crag, see ; Hest-fell in Cumberland.
: either hesta- or hests-: hesta-at, a horse-fight, see etja. hesta-bein, horse bones ( horse-flesh), 96. hesta-fóðr, horse foddering, a law term, 77. hesta-fætr, horses’ feet, 77, i. 226, iii. 111. hesta-garðr, a horse-pen close to a churchyard, wherein the horses of the worshippers are kept during service, hesta-geldir, horse gelder, a nickname, hesta-geymsla, u, horse keeping, i. 80. hesta-gnegg, a horse’s neigh, 621. hesta-gnýr, m, noise of horsemen, iii. 74. hesta-hlið, a horse gate, hesta-járn, horse-shoes, iii. 152. hesta-keyrsla, u, driving the steed in, in a horse-fight, 261. hesta-korn, [ hestakorn = oats], a nickname, iii. hesta-lið, horsemen, vii. 188. hesta-maðr, a horse boy, groom. hesta-rétt, in , = Norse hestagarðr. hesta-skál, a stirrup-cup. hesta-skipti, a change of horses; hafa h., 202, 51. hesta-stafr, a horse staff, to be used in a horse-fight, 91, 49, 12, 18. hesta-stallr, = hesthús, hesta-steinn, a stone to whicb a horse is tied whilst the horseman takes refreshment. hesta-sveinn, a horse boy, groom, ii. 218, i. 149, 205, 50. hesta-víg, a horse-fight, 90, ii. 100, 366, 261. hesta-þing, a meeting for a public horse-fight, 366, 367, 92, 37, 176, 43, 140.
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