vell
nafnorðhvorugkyn
[vella2], gold, molten, native, gold, or = ‘ge-diegenes gold,’ ( the word comes from the superstition as to serpents brooding and hatching gold, fóru þeir til bælis drekans, ok sá þeir þar mikit gull, ok ‘heitt sem nýrunnit í afli,’ 24.) The word is only used in poets, and in the compds, vell-auðigr, vell-ríkr, : compds, vell-bjóðr, -broti, -meiðir, -rýrir, -stærir, -vönuðr, all epithets of a princely man.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- n.hvorugkyn (e. neuter)
- prop.proper, properly.
- i. e.id est.
- Germ.German.
- perh.perhaps.
- cp.compare.
- q. v.quod vide.
- poët.poetically.
- Ingv.Ingvars saga. (E. I.)