tafn
nafnorðhvorugkyn
[ daps; δαπάνη; the Greek word is analogous to sóa, which means to sacrifice and then to waste]:—a sacrifice, = victima, hostia, but only in a heathen sense, and obsolete; heilagt tafn, the holy sacrifice, ; Gauts tafn, the victims of Odin, the slain, who in the heathen creed were an offering to Odin, the god of victory, (in a verse).
2. a bloody prey, ; tafn fékksk hrafni, tafns leitandi hrafnar, hrafn fagnaði tafni, hrafn á ylgjar tafni, bola tafn und kló hrafni, (in all these references ‘tafn’ is used by the poets to rhyme to hrafn); val-tafn, id.; gefa ærit tafn hrafni ok vargi, 152: in old writers, sæfa töfn, 348; tafn Guðs, 310 (victima Domini, Vulgate); fórn ok töfn, 655 xxiii. 1; fórnir ok töfn, id.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- cp.compare.
- Lat.Latin.
- Gr.Greek.
- i. e.id est.
- poët.poetically.
- eccl.ecclesiastical.
- Hd.Hús-drápa. (A. I.)
- Landn.Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Karl.Karla-magnús saga. (G. I.)
- Stj.Stjórn. (F. I.)