lauðr
nafnorðhvorugkyn
, löðr, but the diphthong is borne out by old rhymes as, lauðri, rauða, vi. 47 (in a verse); nauð, vii. 66; as also by the derivative leyðra, : [ leaðor = a kind of nitre, used for soap; lather]:—the froth or foam of the sea water; lauðr var lagt í beði, vi. 180 (in a verse); ljótu lauðri dreif á lypting, id.; alda lauðri faldin, (in a verse); viðr þolir nauð í lauðri, vii. (in a verse): lauðr Óðins elda, = the blood, (in a verse); haf-lauðr, sea-scum, ; vápn-lauðr = blood.
II. in prose of a kind of nitre or soap used in cleaning, the head; lodder = a kind of soap, lather; ok þó hón höfuð hans, … ok hafði hón eigi þvegit lauðr ór höfði honum, Ísl. ii. 333 (): líneik (the maid) strauk lauðri um skör mína, 82 new (in a verse).
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- mod.modern.
- q. v.quod vide.
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.English.
- poët.poetically.
- esp.especially.
- e. g.exempli gratia.
- cp.compare.
- Swed.Swedish.
- Ed.edition, editions, edited.
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Orkn.Orkneyinga saga. (E. II.)
- Gísl.Gísla saga. (D. II.)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Heiðarv. S.Heiðarvíga saga. (D. II.)
- Vígl.Víglundar saga. (D. V.)