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ormr

nafnorðkarlkyn
[ waurms = ὄφις; wyrm; worm: and wurm; Dan.-Swed. orm; vermis; Orms-head in Wales]:—a snake, serpent, also including ‘worms’ ( maðkr), and even dragons, 85, 44, 50, 34, 27, 31, 22, 55. vi. 143, i. 103, and passim; högg-ormr, a viper; eitr-ormr, the bane of snakes, the winter time. The abode of the wicked after death was a pit full of snakes (Hver-gelmir, Ná-strönd), , 44, which calls to mind the Gehenna in Mark ix. 43, 44, and one of the Bolgos in Dante’s Inferno, Canto 24. Serpents gnawed at the root of the world-tree Yggdrasil, 34. Pits of snakes were a place of punishment, , , ; but only in mythological, not in historical records. Serpents brooded over gold and treasures, the serpent Fafnir, , , 4, (); whence in poetry gold is called orm-bekkr, -beðr, -ból, -garðr, -land, -látr, -láð, -reitr, -setr, -stallr, -torg, -vangr, -vengr, the bank, bed, abode, garden, land, litter, earth, of snakes, For the world-serpent, see miðgarðr. orm-fellir, the snake-killer = the winter, vi. (in a verse): a sword is called a snake, blóð-ormr, rand-ormr, see ; ketil-ormr, a sausage, : of ships of war with dragons’ heads, Ormr inn Langi, Ormr inn Skammi, Ó.T.
II. names, Ormr and Ormarr; and in compds, Hall-ormr, Ráð-ormr, Þór-ormr, Goð-ormr, Veðr-ormr. = the holy Serpent, a name which indicates serpent worship, although no record of such worship is found in the Sagas.
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Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
  • Ulf.Ulfilas.
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • Engl.English.
  • O. H. G.Old High German.
  • Germ.German.
  • Lat.Latin.
  • cp.compare.
  • i. e.id est.
  • l. c.loco citato.
  • ch.chapter.
  • begin.beginning.
  • etc.et cetera.
  • pr.proper, properly.
  • COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
  • Hm.Hává-mál. (A. I.)
  • Vsp.Völuspá. (A. I.)
  • Gm.Grímnis-mál. (A. I.)
  • Skm.Skírnis-mál. (A. I.)
  • Akv.Atla-kviða. (A. II.)
  • Am.Atla-mál. (A. II.)
  • Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
  • Hkr.Heimskringla. (E. I.)
  • EddaEdda. (C. I.)
  • Ragn. S.Ragnars saga. (C. II.)
  • Fm.Fafnis-mál. (A. II.)
  • Gullþ.Gull-Þóris saga. (D. II.)
  • Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
  • Korm.Kormaks saga. (D. II.)