kambr
nafnorðkarlkyn
[ camb; comb; champ; kamm; kam]:—a comb, iii. 4; ladies used to wear costly combs of walrus-tusk or gold, whence the place in at which Auda lost her comb was called Kambsnes; þau lendu við nes þat er Auðr tapaði kambi sínum; þat kallaði hón Kambsnes, III; eigi berr hann kamb í höfuð sér, 127; see Worsaae, No. 365.
2. a carding-comb (ullar-kambr), 91 A, i. 212.II. a crest, comb, 171; hreistr-k. (), hana-k., a cock’s crest, Gullin-kambi, Gold crest,
2. a crest, ridge of hills; malar-kambr, a ridge on the beach, 48 (where spelt kampr), ii. 354; as also bæjar-kambr, the front wall of a house.
III. in local names, Kambr, of crags rising like a crest, , 27.Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.English.
- O. H. G.Old High German.
- Germ.German.
- Dan.Danish.
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- q. v.quod vide.
- cp.compare.
- freq.frequent, frequently.
- ch.chapter.
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- Landn.Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Þiðr.Þiðreks saga. (G. I.)
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- Fb.Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
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