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leikr1

nafnorðkarlkyn
, leiki is in poetry and old prose, but leik; in old usage always leikar, even in late such as iii. 405; but in usage leikir, leiki: the phrase ‘á nýja leik’ seems to point to a lost feminine leik: [ laiks = χορός, Luke xv. 25; lâc; laik; leik; leg; lek]:—a game, play, sport, including athletics, 147, 31–33, 60; ok eigi var sá leikr er nokkurr þyrfti við hann at keppa, 29; sjá skulum vér leika þína (not leiki), iii. 405; leika ok gleði, 26; slá leik, to set up a game ( slá danz), ii. 190 (of a game of ball): of a dance, 42; hann hendi gaman at aflraunum ok leikum, … knattleikar vóru þá tiðir, 187; leikr var lagiðr á Hvítár-völlum allfjölmennr, 188; sveinninn var á leiki með öðrum ungmennum, i. 78; fara at (með) leik sínum, to roam about, 336, x. 159; hverir eiga hér leik svá újafnan? 125: of a ceremony, 7: of capping verses, i. 237; streng-leikr, a ‘string-play,’ lay.
2. a game, sport, 50 new ; hann segir þeim um hvat leika ( ) var, he told them what the game was, i. 325, ii. 49; sagði hvat í leikum var, 152; tók leikrinn ekki at batna af þeirra hendi, vi. 212: the phrase, á nýja leik, anew, 10, i. 334, 234, ix. 274, 284, 370, 401, 409, 511, xi. 62; nýjan leik is a modernized form not found in good old vellums; eptir e-s leik, after one’s good pleasure, 148: the phrase, leikr er gjörr til e-s, a person is aimed at, is the mark of an attack; þvíat til hans var leikr görr, 152; göra sér leik til e-s, to act wantonly:— phrase, Hildar leikr, Öðins leikr, sverða, járna leikr, , the play of Hilda, of Odin, of swords, of iron = battle, ; the Freys leikr, the play of Frey, by Hornklofi, 4 (in a verse), is by the older Grundtvig ingeniously identified with our Yule play, see the connection in which the word stands in the verse. The ancients used to assemble for athletic sports (leik-mót), and during that time they lived in booths or sheds (leik-skáli), even women used to be present as spectators, 43, 9, , i. 23. ☞ An interesting description and account of modern games is given by Jón Ólafsson in his Collectanea towards an Dictionary, leikr2 (in the Additam. to the Collection in Copenhagen); thus, brúar-leikr, skolla-l., risa-l., húfu-l., felinga-l., and many others. leiks-lok, ; at leikslokum, finally.
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  • m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
  • dat.þágufall (e. dative)
  • freq.frequent, frequently.
  • mod.modern.
  • plur.fleirtala (e. plural)
  • MSS.manuscript, manuscripts.
  • acc.þolfall (e. accusative)
  • Ulf.Ulfilas.
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  • North. E.Northern English.
  • O. H. G.Old High German.
  • Dan.Danish.
  • Swed.Swedish.
  • ch.chapter.
  • cp.compare.
  • metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
  • Ed.edition, editions, edited.
  • gen.eignarfall (e. genitive)
  • pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
  • poët.poetically.
  • etc.et cetera.
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  • s. v.sub voce.
  • n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
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  • EddaEdda. (C. I.)
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  • Fagrsk.Fagrskinna. (K. I.)
  • Sturl.Sturlunga saga. (D. I.)
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  • Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
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