stál
nafnorðhvorugkyn
[a common word; stahal], steel; sterkasta stáli, 285, , x. 172, passim: phrases, sverfa til stáls, to file to the very steel, to fight to the last, vii. 244, 69.
2. , of weapons: er stálin mættusk. , passim.3. a part of a ship, the beak; þeir höfðu raskótt fyrir stálinu, viii. 199; kjalar, stála, súða, 66, II. , from steel wrapped in soft iron before being fused in the forge:—the inside of a hay-stack or rick (= staði); hann tók laust hey ór stálinu. 378; ef maðr á korn falt í stáli eðr hey, ii. 111 (v.r. to staði), in usage.
2. an intercalary sentence in a verse, much used by the ancient poets, in the metre dróttkvætt, i. 618; thus in 13 the words ‘sveipr varð í för’ is a stál. In the old poems of the metre dróttkvæð the strophes are interwoven with such intercalary sentences; in some editions these sentences are marked by [ ] or by ( ):—as a term, embolismus, köllum var þat gört á stál ef á meðal verðr hendinga, ii. 106.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- Teut.Teutonic.
- O. H. G.Old High German.
- plur.fleirtala (e. plural)
- metaph.metaphorical, metaphorically.
- freq.frequent, frequently.
- mod.modern.
- esp.especially.
- gramm.grammar.
- COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
- Karl.Karla-magnús saga. (G. I.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Gullþ.Gull-Þóris saga. (D. II.)
- Art.Artus-kappa sögur. (G. II.)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- EddaEdda. (C. I.)
- Njarð.Njarðvíkinga saga. (D. II.)
- N. G. L.Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
- Haustl.Haustlöng. (A. I.)
- SkáldaSkálda. (H. I.)