Yrða

miðgarðr

nafnorðkarlkynmið-garðr
[in Cumberland three farms, High-garth, Middle-garth, Low-garth]
I. the ‘mid-yard’ ‘middle-town,’ the earth, a word common to all ancient languages; thus renders the οἰκουμένη by midjungards; Hel, calls the earth middil-gard; the. homilies instead of earth say middan-geard (meddlert, Jamieson), and use the word as an appellative; but the alone has preserved the true mythical bearing of this old word.—The earth (Miðgarð), the abode of men, is seated in the middle of the universe, bordered by mountains and surrounded by the great sea (úthaf); on the other side of this sea is the Út-garð (out-yard), the abode of giants; the Miðgarð is defended by the ‘yard’ or ‘burgh’ Ás-garð (the burgh of the gods), lying in the middle (the heaven being conceived as rising above the earth). Thus the earth and mankind are represented as a stronghold besieged by the powers of evil from without, defended by the gods from above and from within; see 4, 41, 6, 25, 26, 35: mankind is said to abide ‘undir Miðgarði,’ under the Midgard, 23; mest manna-val und Miðgarði, 11, 16, vi. 423 (in a verse); um allan Miðgarð, Blanda. Miðgarðs-ormr, the Serpent of Midgard. the world serpent of the ancient mythology hidden in the ocean, whose coils gird round the whole Midgard, 18, 34–36, 41, 42; dólgr Miðgarðs-orms, the antagonist of the M. = Thor, 53; muntú vera ormr sá er verstr er til er menn kalla Miðgarðsorm, i. 373. In old translations of legends Leviathan is rendered by Miðgarðsormr, 3, 686 C. 2. The god Thor is called Miðgarðs-véorr, = the holy one of M., ; miðgarðs verjandi, the defender of Midgard, 53; Þórr hefir varðan Miðgarð af þrek, (in a verse).II. Miðgarðr, as a local name. map.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
  • i. e.id est.
  • mythol.mythology, mythologically.
  • Teut.Teutonic.
  • Ulf.Ulfilas.
  • Gr.Greek.
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
  • cp.compare.
  • EddaEdda. (C. I.)
  • Vsp.Völuspá. (A. I.)
  • Gm.Grímnis-mál. (A. I.)
  • Hbl.Harbarðs-ljóð. (A. I.)
  • Hdl.Hyndlu-ljóð. (A. II.)
  • Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
  • Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
  • Niðrst.Niðrstigningar saga. (F. III.)
  • Post.Postula sögur. (F. III.)