nykr
nafnorðkarlkyn
, nykrs, [a word common to all languages; nicor; nick; nix; nök and nisse; Norse nyk; näcken = a sea goblin; one is tempted to suggest that the Neptunus (p = g) may be related to this Teutonic word; also neckisch, neckerei = whims, nykker]:—the ‘nick,’ a fabulous water-goblin, mostly appearing in the shape of a gray water-horse, emerging from lakes, to be recognised by its inverted hoofs, the tale told in 2. 10, as also Maurer’s Volksagen: , nykra borg = ‘nick-burrow,’ a lake, The nykr is the Proteus of the Northern tales, and takes many shapes, whence the term nykrat, a kind of kakemphaton, a change in a figure of speech, to call a sword first a ‘serpent’ and then a ‘wand,’ or to choose a verb which does not suit the trope in the noun; sá löstr er vér köllum nykrat eðr finngálknat … ok er þar svá skipt líkneskjum á hinum sama hlut, sem nykrinn skiptisk á margar leiðir, 187; en ef sverð er ormr kallaðr en síðan fiskr eða vöndr eðr annan veg breytt, þat kalla menn nykrat ok þykir þat spilla, 123. In Norse tales a water-goblin is called nykk or nök (nökken), see and Mr. Dasent’s Transl. of Asbjörnsen and Moe’s Norse Tales. The legend exists also in the Highlands of Scotland. In tales the nykr is also called nennir or kumbr, ; nykr-hestr, vatna-hestr.
II. the hippopotamus; nykrar svá stórir sem fílar, 167, 171.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- gen.eignarfall (e. genitive)
- Teut.Teutonic.
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.English.
- Germ.German.
- Dan.Danish.
- mod.modern.
- Swed.Swedish.
- Lat.Latin.
- cp.compare.
- ch.chapter.
- poët.poetically.
- gramm.grammar.
- part.lýsingarháttur (e. participle)
- e. g.exempli gratia.
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- q. v.quod vide.
- Landn.Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- SkáldaSkálda. (H. I.)
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Ivar AasenIvar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.
- Al.Alexanders saga. (G. I.)