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f.1) wilderness, desert (úfœriligar auðnir);2) uninhabited and uncultivated tract of land, waste (bygðust þá margar auðnir landsins);3) deserted farm or habitation (sá bœr hét síðan á Hrappstöðum, þar er nú auðn);4) desolation;ríki mitt stendr mjök til auðnar, is in a state of desolation;liggja (leggja) í auðn, to lie (to lay) waste;5) destruction (auðn borgarinnar).* * *f. [auðr, adj.]1. a wilderness, desert; auðn Sinai, Stj. 300.β. land which has no owner or is waste, uninhabited; bygðust þá margar auðnir víða, many wide wastes were then peopled, Eg. 15; alla auðn landsins, Fms. i. 5, viii. 33, Greg. 33: the auðn was claimed as a royal domain; konungr á hér a. alla í landi, Fms. xi. 225; um þær auðnir er menn vilja byggja, þá skal sá ráða er a. á, the owner of the waste, N. G. L. i. 125: different from almenningr, compascuum or common.2. more specially a deserted farm or habitation; sá bær hét síðan á Hrappstöðum, þar er nú a., Ld. 24; liggja í a., to lie waste, 96, Grág. ii. 214, cp. 278.3. destruction; auðn borgarinnar (viz. Jerusalem), Greg. 40, Rb. 332, Ver. 43, Sd. 179 (where auðnu, f.); ríki mitt stendr mjök til auðnar, is in a state of desolation, Fms. xi. 320, Bret. 68: insolvency, utter poverty, Grág. i. 62.COMPDS: auðnarhús, auðnaróðal, auðnarsel.
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