víf
nafnorðhvorugkyn
[ wîf, wîf-man = woman; wife; weib; supposed to have originally meant a weaver, from vefa, vífiðr]:—a woman, but only in poetry; for in prose, old as well as modern, the word is quite obsolete, 22; er vaknaði víf ór svefni, 1. 16; þá varð hilmi hugr á vífi, 2. 13; hafða ok þess vætki vífs, 102; víf en fögru, vii. 61 (in a verse); vant er stafs vífi, 12; velskúfaðra vífa, (in a verse); hamra víf, the wife of the rocks, a giantess; gjörninga víf, a witch; ósk-víf, a ‘wish-wife,’ chosen, wedded wife; geir-víf, spear-wife, = Bellona,
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.English.
- Germ.German.
- Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- Rm.Rígsmál. (A. II.)
- Skv.Sigurðar-kviða. (A. II.)
- Hkv.Helga-kviða Hundingsbana. (A. II.)
- Hm.Hává-mál. (A. I.)
- Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
- Am.Atla-mál. (A. II.)
- Orkn.Orkneyinga saga. (E. II.)
- Lex. Poët.Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.