Yrða

rann

nafnorðhvorugkyn
, rönn, 23 (in a verse), iii. 43, 74 (in a verse); ranna, 24: [ razna = οἰκία; ræsn; this ancient word is obsolete in prose, but remains in the law term ransack, ‘house-search’]:—a house; ossum rönnum í, 14; at háfu Heljar ranni, 3; rymr varð í ranni, i. 492 (in a verse); styrr varð í ranni, 24; sköptum er rann rept, 9; í væru ranni, 13; ranna þeirra er ek rept vita, 24; í ranni Randvés, Bragi: in prose, in the saving, opt er þat í karls húsi, er ekki er í konungs ranni, iii. 155:—, sólar rann, éla rann, the sun-hall, tempest-hall = the sky; aldar rann, man’s abode = the earth; óðar rann, the mind’s house = the breast; Sörla rann, Reifnis rann = a shield, ; and in compds, ský-rann, glygg-rann, há-rann, hregg-rann, þey-rann, the sky-hall = heavenly vault; hval-rann, a whale’s home = the sea; fjör-rann, life’s house = the breast; dverg-rann, a dwarf’s house = the rocks; leg-rann, the bed’s room = the house; mjoð-rann, mead’s hall = a drinking-hall; auð-rann, a treasury; böl-rann, bale’s abode = death, , The word is still used by poets, but is rannr, though it is still in poems of the 16th century, heilagt rann, … rannið friða, ii. 309 (a poem of 1540); it is even in hymns, í heimsins rann, ; sælu-ranns, 25. 10.
II. in a name, Rann-veig, , and Rann-verr, also spelt Rand-verr.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
  • pl.fleirtala (e. plural)
  • gen.eignarfall (e. genitive)
  • Ulf.Ulfilas.
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • Engl.English.
  • prop.proper, properly.
  • poët.poetically.
  • etc.et cetera.
  • Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
  • masc.karlkyn (e. masculine)
  • neut.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
  • freq.frequent, frequently.
  • mod.modern.
  • pr.proper, properly.
  • perh.perhaps.
  • Ó. H.Ólafs saga Helga. (E. I.)
  • Hkr.Heimskringla. (E. I.)
  • Gm.Grímnis-mál. (A. I.)
  • Skm.Skírnis-mál. (A. I.)
  • Vtkv.Vegtams-kviða. (A. I.)
  • Fas.Fornaldar sögur. (C. II.)
  • Hðm.Hamðis-mál. (A. II.)
  • Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
  • Bs.Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)
  • Hallgr.Hallgrímr Pétrsson.
  • Pass.Passiu-Sálmar.
  • Landn.Landnáma. (D. I.)