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jökull

nafnorðkarlkyn
, jökli, jöklar, a from jaki, ; [ gicel, îs-gicel, whence icicle; Low jokel]:—an icicle; gékk inn í sal, glumdu jöklar, var karls er kom kinnskógr frörinn, 10, of the icicles in the giant’s beard; síðan tóku þeir jöklana ok bræddu, ix. 155: so also in phrases, where silver is called jökull handar or mund-jökull, the icicle of the hand, Hallfred, : as also böðvar-j., the war-icicle = the sword, or sár-j., the wound-icicle, see
II. a sense, ice, ; vatnið snýsk í jökul, 196; settu þeir þat upp með öllum sjánum sem í var ok jöklinum, en þat var mjök sýlt, they launched the ship with all the ice in it, 125: snjór ok jökull, jökla-gangr, an ice-drift, 132 new
2. in specific sense, a glacier; this sense the Icelanders probably derived from the Norse county Hardanger, which is the only county of Norway in which Jökul appears as a local name, see Munch’s Norg. Beskr.; in it is used all over the country both as an appellative and in local names, whereas the primitive sense (icicle) is quite lost, , , 133, 208, passim.3. in local names, Ball-jökull, Eyjafjalla-j., Snæfells-j., Vatna-j., Mýrdals-j., Öræfa-j., Dranga-j., Langi-j., Eireks-j., , see the map of ; the glaciers of the colony in Greenland are also called jökuls: of rivers, Jökuls-á, Ice-water; Jökuls-dalr, Ice-water-dale; Jökla-menn, the men from the county Jökul ( Snæfells-jökull), ii. 158; Jöklamanna-búð and goðorð, see búð and goðorð.
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