(var þar reitt at fjörum)

a. passable on horseback, ridable (var þar reitt at fjörum).

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adj. [ríða], passable on horseback, of a ford, river; var þar reitt at fjörum en eigi at flóðum, Sturl. iii. 33, v. l.; ó-reiðr, impassable on horseback; görði ána úreiða, Bs. 1. 138; hón var óreið, 54, Nj. 63: of weather, fit for travelling, það er ekki reitt veðr; óreitt fyrir stormi, etc.

adj. ready, clear; allr herr gékk reiðr (thus, not = vreiðr) at Rögnis skeiði, all the host went ‘ready,’ straight towards the sea, Bragi; kömr hann eigi til skips áðr en reiðr (sic) sé rudd, before the ship is made ready for sea (?), N. G. L. i. 335: the word is rare in old writers; mod., hafa e-ð á reiðum höndum, to have ready at hand.

a. passable on horseback, ridable (var þar reitt at fjörum).

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reið, reitt, adj., compar. reiðari, reiðastr, originally vreiðr, which form remains in the allit. poët. phrase, vega vreiðr, Fm. 7, 17, 30, Sdm. 27, Ls. 15, 18, 27; [A. S. wrâð; Engl. wrath; Dan.-Swed. vred; derived from vríða, prop. meaning a-wry, contorted, which sense however is lost, and the word is only used in the metaph. sense]:—wrathful, angry, offended; þá mælti Þórr, gangi nú til einhverr ok fáisk við mik, nú em ek reiðr, Edda 33, Ó. H. 16; reiðr var þá Vingþórr er hann vaknaði, Þkv. 1; Gunnarr var reiðr mjök, Nj. 68; í reiðum hug, Fms. vi. 4, and passim; fok-r., bál-r., all-r., ú-reiðr: reiðr e-m, angry with one; hann var r. Einari, Eg. 694; konungr varð þessu mjök reiðr, Fms. i. 12: r. við e-t, id.; hann varð við þat reiðr mjök, Íb. 10.