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a sand-hill grown with bent-grass

  • 1 MELR

    (-s, -ar), m.
    2) sand-bank, gravel-bank.
    * * *
    m., pl. melar, a kind of wild oats, esp. bent-grass, arundo arenaria, growing in sandy soil; it is esp. found in Skaptafells-sýsla and in Mýra-sýsla (near to Hitarnes and Akrar), cp. Bjarn. 22, which probably refers to cutting this grass, cp. Eggert Itin. §§ 490, 813; þeir leiddu hesta sína undir melbakka ok skáru fyrir þá melinn at þeir dæi eigi af sulti, Nj. 265; átta tigir mels í Hátuninga mcl, D. I. i. 199.
    II. a sand-hill grown with bent-grass (such hills are called dunes or denes in E. Anglia, links on the N. E. coast); then, generally, a sand-bank, whether overgrown or bare; ríða eptir melunum, fram melana; á melunum með ánni; þar eru melar brattir ok lausgrýttir, … ok hrundu þeim af melunum, Glúm. 394, 395; ok er hann kom á mela þá … þá settisk hann á melinn … þá hratt Lambi honum fyrir melinn ofan á sandinn, Eg. 746, 748; ganga fram á mel nokkurn, Ld. 62; þá ríðr hann undir melinn, Gísl. 19; á sandmel þeim er þar verðr, Ó. H. 226; þar sem sandmelar tveir rauðir stóðu, … undir enum syðra melnum, Landn. 77, Gísl. 23.
    III. freq. in Icel. local names, Melr, Melar, Mela-hverfi, Mela-sveit, whence Mela-menn or Mel-menn (Nj. 151), Rauði-melr; Rauðmelingar, the men from Mel and R., Landn.
    COMPDS: melasól, melbakki, meldýna, melgras, melkarl, melrakki, melrakkabelgr, melrakkaveiðr, Melrakka-dalr, -nes, -slétta, Landn., Fbr., melteigr, meltorfa.

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