Yrða

níð

nafnorðhvorugkyn
1. [ neiþ = φθόνος; nîð; nid; neid; Dan.-Swed. nid]:—contumely, 56; segja e-m níð, 35.2. particularly as a law term, a libel, liable to outlawry:—of a libel in verse, yrkja, kveða níð um e-n, 70; ef maðr kveðr níð um mann at lögbergi ok varðar skóggang, () ii. 184: the classical passages in the Sagas are O. T. 36, 13 ( xi. 42, 43), 4, 45, 33 (the verse). Another and even graver kind of níð was the carving a person’s likeness (tré-níð) in an obscene position on an upraised post or pole (níð-stöng), for an instance of which see 33; ef maðr görir níð um annan ok varðar þat fjörbaugs-garð, en þat er níð ef maðr skerr tréníð manni eðr rístr eða reisir manni níðstöng, i. 147; when the post was set up, a horse’s head was also put up, and a man’s head was carved on the pole’s end, with dire Runes and imprecations; all this is described in a lively manner in 60 and 34, 4. 4, 25. The beina-kerlinga-vísur of times are no doubt a remnant of the old níðstöng;—certain stone pyramids (varða) along mountain-roads are furnished with sheeps’ legs or horses’ heads, and are called beina-kerling (bone carline); one of the most noted is on the Kaldadal, as one passes from the north to the south of Iceland, it is even marked in the map; a passing traveller alights and scratches a ditty called beina-kerlinga-vísa (often of a scurrilous or even loose kind) on one of the bones, addressing it to the person who may next pass by; for a specimen see 193, as also in poems of Jón Þorláksson, for there hardly was a poet who did not indulge in these poetical licences. In popular legends the devil always scratches his writing on a blighted horse’s bone.2. f, thus (not Nið) in Reg., a river in Norway, whence Níðar-óss, the famous old town in Drontheim in Norway.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
  • Ulf.Ulfilas.
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • O. H. G.Old High German.
  • Germ.German.
  • ch.chapter.
  • cp.compare.
  • mod.modern.
  • m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
  • Vsp.Völuspá. (A. I.)
  • Akv.Atla-kviða. (A. II.)
  • Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
  • Grág.Grágás. (B. I.)
  • Kb.Konungs-bók. (B. I, C. I, etc.)
  • Hkr.Heimskringla. (E. I.)
  • Jómsv. S.Jómsvíkinga saga. (E. I.)
  • Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
  • Kristni S.Kristni saga. (D. I. III.)
  • Bjarn.Bjarnar saga. (D. II.)
  • Eg.Egils saga. (D. II.)
  • Vd.Vatnsdæla saga. (D. II.)
  • Landn.Landnáma. (D. I.)
  • Rd.Reykdæla saga. (D. II.)
  • BjarniBjarni Thorarinson.
  • Ann.Íslenzkir Annálar. (D. IV.)