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reykr

nafnorðkarlkyn
, reykjar. reyki, 211 B, but usually reyk; with the article reykinum, 218, Nj 58, 202, reyknum; reykir, reykja, reykjum: [ reôc; reek; reek or reik; rauch; rög; rök]:—reek, smoke, steam; svartr af reyk, 183; hann gengr með reykinum, 58: síðan hljóp hann með reykinum, 202; hélt þá reykinum upp í skarðit, 218; hvert hús er reyk () reykir, i. 11; þeir sásk til víða, ef þeir sæi reyki eðr nokkur líkendi til þess at landit væri byggt, ok sá þeir þat ekki, 26; hverfr því likt sem reyk legði, ; hingat leggr allan reykinn, 202; hverfa sem r. fyrir vindi, ; nú leggr sundr reyki vára ef sinn veg fara hvárir, vi. 244; hvárt sem mér angrar reykr eða bruni, 201; kómusk þeir með reyk í brott, 84; var fullt húsit af reyk, 44: phrase, vaða reyk, to ‘wade in reek’ to be all in the wrong; hann lagði halann á bak sér ok setti í burtu, svá at hvárki sá af honum veðr né reyk, i. 565:—reykjar-daunn, reykjar-þefr, a smell of smoke, ii. 98, 41, 240; reykjar-bragð, a taste of smoke; reykjar-svæla, a thick cloud of smoke; reykjar-gufa, vaporous smoke, passim.
II. in local names, Reykir, as well as the compounds with Reykjar- and Reykja-, are , marking places with hot springs, the Reykjar- being used when there is but one spring, and the Reykja- when there are more than one, thus, Reykja-á, Reykja-dalr, Reykja-holt ( Reyk-holt), Reykja-laug, Reykja-nes, Reykja-hlíð, Reykja-hólar ( Reyk-hólar), Reykja-vellir; but Reykjar-fjörðr (twice in western ), Reykjar-dalr, Reykjar-hóll, Reykjar-strönd, ; and lastly, Reykjar-vík, thus 37, 4 (Rꜹkiarvic), 10, for the spring (in Laugarnes) is but one; , but less correct, Reykja-vík. Local names beginning with Reyk- are peculiar to , and are not met with in any other country; the pillars of transparent steam, as seen afar off, must have struck the mind of the first settlers, who gave the names to the localities. Reyk-dælir, Reyk-nesingar, Reyk-hyltingar, , men from R, ,
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