Yrða

jöfurr

nafnorðkarlkyn
, jöfri, jöfrar:
I. [ eofor; epar; eber; aper]:—a wild boar; but it occurs in this sense only twice or thrice in poetry, 1. 39, 2. 24.II. a king, warrior, from the custom of wearing boar’s heads as helmets, eofor-cumbol and Hildigöltr; jöfurr in this sense is not used in prose, but is in old poetry, even in poems as old as the Ýt., see Sense I. is unknown to the , and sense II. to the languages.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
  • dat.þágufall (e. dative)
  • pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • O. H. G.Old High German.
  • Germ.German.
  • Lat.Latin.
  • metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
  • prob.probably.
  • cp.compare.
  • freq.frequent, frequently.
  • Scandin.Scandinavia, Scandinavian.
  • Teut.Teutonic.
  • Merl.Merlinus Spa. (A. III.)
  • Gkv.Guðrúnar-kviða. (A. II.)
  • Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.