Yrða

mús

nafnorðkvenkyn
, mýss, mýs, mýs; [ mûs, mýs; mouse, mice; mûs; maus, mäuser; muus; mus; μυς]:—a mouse, i. 482, 169, 23; spilltu mýss kornum ok ökrum, var þar víða jörð hol ok full af músum, i. 293; mús hljóp áðan á kinn mér, 140; sér köttrinn músina? Ísl. ii. 309; svá hræddr sem mús í skreppu, vii. 21; hlaupa hingat ok þangat sem mýss í holur, viii. 39; veiða mýs, to catch mice; mýss svá stórar sem kettir, 109 (rats?); þá sá hann mýs tvær aðra hvíta en aðra svarta, 56; mýss Valkar, Welsh mice, strange mice = rats, xi. 279; whence valska, ; flæðar-mús, skógar-mús, a wood-mouse, mus sylvaticus, Eggert : , maðr og mús, thus in Danish if a ship is lost, ‘med mand og muus,’ with all hands. In tales mice are said to pass over rivers on cakes of cow-dung (skán), steering with their tails, see Eggert 329, and , which reminds one of the witch who sails ‘like a rat without a tail’ in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. For the fabulous tales of wizards keeping a flæðar-mús that it may always provide them with money see Maurer’s Volks.; when the wizard dies, the mouse breaks loose into the sea and a tempest arises, called Músar-bylr, mouse-tempest; that a similar superstition existed in olden times may be inferred from the name Músa-Bölverkr,
2. the name of a mouse-gray young cow, Ísl. ii. 401.
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B. Metaph. the biceps muscle in the arm; þá flaug ör ein ok kom í hönd Hákoni konungi upp í músina fyrir neðan öxl, i. 159; kom ein ör í handlegginn í músina, i. 781: mûs in and is used in a similar sense; also musculus = a little mouse, whence muscle: the chief muscles of the body were named from lively animals, thus fiskr of the cheek (kinn-fiskr), mús of the arm, kálfi (calf) of the leg.
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