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3 hleytis-maðr
m. a disciple, apprentice, a rendering of Lat. vicarius, Post. 36, opp. to meistari, analogous to Goth. siponeis, from sifjar, Skálda 180. -
4 kenning
* * *(pl. -ar), f.1) teaching, doctrine, lesson, esp. of preaching; kenna kenningar, to preach;* * *f. doctrine, teaching, lesson, esp. of preaching, Fms. i. 148; kenna kenningar, to teach, preach, 625. 24, K. Á. 22, Bs. i. 140, N. T., Vídal.; tíðagörð ok k., passim; á-kenning, q. v.; viðr-k., acknowledgment.2. a mark of recognition, Grett. 132 A; kenningar-orð, words of admonition, Hkr. iii. 23, Fb. iii. 279; kenningar-maðr = kennimaðr, Rb. 366; kenningar-sveinn, an apprentice, N. G. L. ii. 204.II. a poetical periphrasis or descriptive name (see kenna A. V. 2), Edda passim, opp. to ókennd heiti ( simple appellatives); a kenning is either simple (kennt), double (tví-kennt), or triple (rekit). The ancient circumlocutions were either drawn from mythology, as to call Thor the son of Earth (Jarðar sunr), and the heaven the skull of Ymir; or from the thing itself (sann-kenning), as to call the breast the mind’s abode: similar phraseology is found in all ancient poetry, but in the old northern poets it was carried farther and was more artificial than in other languages.COMPDS: kenningarfaðir, kenningarnafn, kenningarson. -
5 starf-sveinn
m. a workman, apprentice. Fms. xi. 431. -
6 SVEINN
(-s, -ar), m.1) boy (sveinar tveir léku á gólfinu);2) in addressing grown-up men, boys, lads (hart ríði þér, sveinar!);3) servant, attendant (þeir vissu, at hann var s. Gunnhildar); squire, page.* * *m. [a northern word, from which the A. S. swân, Engl. swain, seems to be borrowed]:—a boy; fæddi Vigdís barn, þat var sveinn, sá var vænn mjök, Ingimundr leit á sveininn ok mælti, sjá sveinn … son áttu þau annan … þessi sveinn, Fs. 23; sveinninn Hörðr stóð við stokk ok gékk nú it fyrsta sinn frá stokkinum til móður sinnar, Ísl. ii. 15; skal þat barn út bera ef þú fæðir meybarn, en upp fæða ef sveinn er, 198; kona hans fæddi barn, ok hét sveinn sá Hrafn, Eg. 100; svá sem þeir sveinar aðrir er vóru sex vetra eðr sjau vetra, 147; sveinar tveirléku á gólfinu, Nj. 15; var þá nafn gefit sveininum, 91; kallaði Njáll á sveininn Höskuld, … hann lét sveininum ekki í mein, ok unni mikit, 146, 147; sveininn Þórð Kárason … hinu hefir þú mér heitið, amma, segir sveinninn, 201, Bs. i. 599.II. boys, lads! often used in addressing grown-up men; eld kveykit ér nú, sveinar! Nj. 199; hart ríðit ér, sveinar! 82; sjáit ér nú rauðálfinn, sveinar! 70; hverr á sveina (gen. pl.) hendr í hári mér? Fms. xi. 151; hvernig er, sveinar? 145; sveinn ok sveinn! hverjum ertú sveini borinn? Fm. 1; inn fráneygi sveinn! id.; Hjalla-sveinar, Hofs-sveinar, Gullþ. 4, Finnb.2. a servant, attendant, waiter; sveinar Ólafs, Ld. 96: esp. a page, sveinn Gunnildar, Nj. 5, Fms. ix. 236, Ann. 1346 C; skutil-sveinn, skó-sveinn, q. v.: of bondsmen, N. G. L. i. 35, 76: in mod. usage an apprentice, Dan. svend.III. a nickname, Sigurðr Sveinn (= the Germ. Siegfried), Skíða R. 2. Sveinn, a pr. name, very freq., Landn., Fms.: in compds, Svein-björn, Svein-ungr, Sveinki, Berg-sveinn, Koll-s.COMPDS: sveinalauss, sveinsleikr, sveinsligr.
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