be+debated

(að), v.

1) to number, tax, value (akta fólkit, akta vísaeyri konungs);

2) to examine, search into (aktið þér ok öll leyni þau, er hann má felast);

3) to devote attention to, to study (akta ýmisligar íþróttir, bókligar listir);

4) to procure (akta þá hluti er hinum sjúka henta); akta e-t inn, to furnish, supply;

5) to debate, discuss in parliament (nú sem þetta var aktat, gengu menn til lögréttu).

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að, [for. word, which therefore does not observe the contraction into á, which is the rule with genuine words; it appears esp. in eccl. writers and annalists at the end of the 13th and 14th centuries, Arna b. S., K. Á., Stj., the Norse Gþl., etc.: cp. A. S. eahtan; Hel. ahton, censere, considerare; Germ. achten; mid. Lat. actare, determinare et actare, Du Cange in a letter of the year 1284.]

I. to number, tax, value, take a census; akta fólkið, Stj. 2 Sam. xxiv. 10; fóru þeir víða um land ok öktuðu vísaeyri konungs, taxed, Bs. i. 707; nú byggir maðr dýrra en vandi hefir á verit, akti ( tax) því fremr dýrra ok fremr til leiðangrs ok landvarnar, he shall be taxed in due proportion, Gþl. 337.

2. to examine, enquire; aktið inniliga öll þau leyni sem hánn má í felast, to take diligent heed of all the lurking-places, Stj. 479. 1 Sam. xxiii. 23; aktið þó áðr, and look, that, id. 2 Kings x. 23; hann aktaði eptir ( looked after) urn eignir staðarins, Bs. i. 778.

3. to devote attention to, study; hann aktaði mjök bókligar listir, Bs. i. 666, 680.

II. a law term, esp. in the Arna b. S., to debate, discuss in parliament; mú er þetta var aktað ( debated) gengu menn til lögréttu, Bs. i. 719; var þá gengit til lögréttu, ok lesit bréf konungs ok drottningar ok aktað ( stated) af leikmanna hendi hversu prestar höfðu af stöðum gengit, 735; lögbók öktuð á alþingi, the code of law debated at the althing, H. Ann. 419. 19. Now only used in the sense of to care for, feel respect for, but a rare and unclassical

n. [þing], mod. form alþing, by dropping the inflective i; the gen., however, still remains unchanged, alþingis. The parliament or general assembly of the Icel. Commonwealth, invested with the supreme legislative and judicial power, consisting of the legislative lögrétta (q. v.), and the courts, v. dómr, fimtardómr, fjórðungsdómar; v. also goði, goðorð, lügsögumaðr, lögsaga, lögberg, and many other words referring to the constitution and functions of the alþingi. It was founded by Ulfljot about A. D. 930, Ib. ch. 3; and reformed by Thord Gellir A. D. 964, who instituted the courts and carried out the political divisions of Icel. into goðorð, fjórðungar, and þing, ch. 5. In the years 1272 and 1281 the alþing, to some extent, changed its old forms, in order to comply with the new state of things. In the year 1800 it was abolished altogether. A kind of parliament, under the old name alþingi, was again established in the year 1843, and sat at Reykjavík. Before the year 930 a general assembly was held in Kjalarnes, whence it was removed under the name of alþingi to the river Öxará, near to the mountain Ármannsfell. The much-debated passage in Hænsaþ. S. ch. 14—en þingit var þá undir Ármannsfelli—therefore simply means that the events referred to happened after the removal of the Kjalarnesping. The parliament at first met on the Thursday beginning the tenth week of the summer, which fell between the 11th and the 17th of June; by a law of the year 999 its opening was deferred to the next following Thursday, between the 18th and 24th of June, old style; after the union with Norway, or after A. D. 1272 or 1281, the time of meeting was further deferred to June 29. July 2 (Vis. B. V. M.) is hence called Þing-Maríumessa. The parliament lasted for a fortnight; the last day of the session, called vápnatak, because the weapons having been laid aside during the session were again taken (cp. Engl. wapentake), thus fell on the first or second Wednesday in July. As to the rules of the alþingi, vide esp. the first chapter of the Þ. Þ. Grág. (Kb.) i. p. 38 sqq. The most eventful years in the history of the alþingi are, A. D. 930 (foundation), 964 (reform), 1000 (introduction of Christianity), 1004 (institution of the Fifth Court), 1024 (repudiation of the attempt of the king of Norway to annex Iceland), 1096 (introduction of tithes), 1117 (first codification of laws), 1262–1264 (submission to the king of Norway), 1272 and 1281 (new codes introduced). In the year 1338 there was no alþing held because of civil disturbances, eytt alþingi ok þóttu þat údærni, Ann. s. a., Grág. (Þ. Þ.) Íslend. bók, Kristni S., Njála, Sturl., Árna b. S., Ó. H. (1853), ch. 114; of modern writers, vide esp. Maurer, Entsteh. des Ísl. Staates; Dasent, Introd. to Burnt Njal; some of the Introductions by Jón Sigurðsson in D. I., esp. that to the Gamli Sáttmáli of the year 1262.

COMPDS: alþingisdómr, alþingisför, alþingishelgun, alþingislof, alþingismál, alþingisnefna, alþingisreið, alþingissátt, alþingissáttarhald, alþingissekt, alþingissektarhald.

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(-ta, -tr), v. to make known;

kynna sér e-t, to make oneself acquainted with, study (kynna sér kaupskap);

hverr mun kynna oss til konungs, who will show us the way to the king;

refl. kynnast, to become known, come abroad;

kynnast e-u, to become acquainted with;

e-m kynnist e-t, one gets acquainted with;

kynnast e-t, to study (= kynna sér e-t);

kynnast við e-n, to make acquaintance with one.

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d, mod. t, [causal from kunna], to make known; k. sér e-t, to make known to oneself, study; k. sér kaupskap, Þórð. 17 new Ed.; hann kynndi sér svá siðu annarra manna, Fms. iii. 213; k. e-m e-t, to communicate to one, 655 xi. 3, MS. 623. 12; hverr mun kynna oss ( shew us the way) til konungs, Karl. 470; kynna um e-t, to enquire into, Sturl. i. 32.

II. reflex. to become known, come abroad; þá þat kyndisk, then it was seen, Hkm. 18, Greg. 59; e-m kynnisk e-t, to get acquainted with, því heldr sem mér kynnisk betr, Fms. ii. 37, vi. 392:—with dat., kynnask e-u, to become acquainted with a thing, Fs. 31:—with acc., kynnask e-t (= kynna sér e-ð), to study, teygja til þess unga menn, at kynnask várt mál, Bs. i. 59:—with prep., kynnask við e-n, to offend a person; hann kynndisk við mik, (ok stakk spjóti sínu við sjóð mínum ok reið á brott), Ísl. ii. 498; but also, to make acquaintance with one, in a good sense, Stj. 422, Konr. 10, passim; perhaps also the debated passage, mjötuðr kyndisk, the ruler enquires (?), Vsp. 47, belongs to this word and not to kynda, see mjötuðr.

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(-ða, -ðr), v.

1) to discuss, debate (þeir kærðu þetta um hríð milli sín);

2) to bring forward, mention; herra R. kærði krankleik sinn, pleaded his illness; kæra vandræði sín fyrir e-m to disclose one’s troubles to one;

3) to complain of (þeir kærðu mjök áhlaup hans);

4) to accuse, make a charge against one (kæra e-n um þjófnað); kæra á e-n, to lay to one’s charge (Svíar kærðu mjök á Hákon konung, at hann hafði brennt Vermaland); kæra sik, to complain, murmur (þegar bœndr tóku at kæra sik).

f. complaint; murmur.

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ð, to accuse, complain of, also to plead, with acc.; Þorsteinn kvaðsk eigi vilja kæra frændr sína um þetta mál, Rd. 234; hvervetna þar sem ef er á nokkru máli, þá kæri þeir sem um þat mál eigu at dæma, K. Á. 204; hann kærði angr sinn, Str. 4; kæra vandræði sín, k. mál sín fyrir e-m, Hkr. i. 196, Fms. x. 24; er lands-nauðsynjar verða fyrir honum kærðar, Sks. 496:—to plead, herra Rafn kærði krankleik sinn, Bs. i. 782; kæra mál sín, to plead one’s cause, Gþl. 16; öll mál ok sakarferli skyldi fyrir dómanda kærask, Stj. 164; kæra lög eðr lof, to debate laws or licenses, Grág. i. 5; þótt þeir kærði ( debated) þetta um hríð milli sín, Hkr. ii. 42.

2. to complain, with prepp.; kæra á e-n, to make a charge or complaint against, accuse; má hón nú ekki á okkr kæra, þvíat ek senda kiðit sem ek hét, Stj. 197; Svíar kærðu mjök á Hákon konung, at hann hafði brennt Vermaland, Fms. x. 2: to plead against, accuse, gékk fram sira Jón holt ok kærði á Ketils-sonu, at þeir hefði úlögliga tekit fyrir honum kvikfé mart, Bs. i. 738: ef nokkurr kærir á þá jörð, Jb. 253; engi hafði á kært né at fundit, Dipl. i. 7; við hvern eiga þessir menn at kæra, against whom have these men to complain? Dropl. 16: kæra sik, to complain, murmur; þegar bændr tóku at k. sik, Fms. iv. 271, Stj. 294.

m., mod. úr-skurðr, [skera úr e-u], a decision; veita órskurð um e-t, Fms. i. 42, v. 333; vil ek heyra fleiri manna órskurð ( opinion) um þetta mál, Hkr. i. 155; en er Norðmönnum þótti seinkask órskurðrinn, Fms. vi. 20; fengusk þeir órskurðir, at …, Hkr. iii. 306; ráðit hefi ek skjótan órskurð um þetta mál okkat, Lv. 53.

2. a legal decision, of a debated question; gefa með fám orðum fullan órskurð, Gþl. (pref. v); tóku hvárir-tveggju Gunnlaug til órskurðar …, hvárir-tveggju undu vel við órskurðinn, Ísl. ii. 233; nú höfu vit skotið þrætu okkarri til yðvars órskurðar, Fms. vii. 203; koma til biskups órskurðar, K. Á. 118: lögmanns órskurðr, D. N. i. 93.

COMPDS: órSkurðarbréf, órskurðarmaðr.