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1 gagarr
m. dog (rare).* * *m. a dog; gagarr er skaptr því at geyja skal, a dog is so made as to bark, Mkv. 4: used as a nickname, Landn. 145: in a verse in Eg. a shell is called ‘the ever mute surf-dog’ (síþögull brimróta gagarr), prob. from a custom of Icel. children, who in play make shells represent flocks and herds, kú-skeljar ( cow-shells), gymbr-skeljar ( lamb-shells), and put one shell for a dog. gagara-ljóð, n. pl. ‘dog-song’ (?), a kind of metre in Rímur. -
2 SKEL
* * *(gen. -jar, pl. -jar), f. shell.* * *gen. skeljar, pl. skeljar, [Ulf. skalja = κέραμος, Luke v. 19; A. S. sceala; Engl. shell; cp. Germ. schale]:—a shell, of flat or spoon-formed shells, as opp. to kúfungr (of whorled shells); báru-skel, gymbr-skel, kú-skel, öðu-skel (aða), kráku-skel; skurn eðr skel, Stj. 88, Mag.; Skelja-karl, id., Skíða R.: kné-skel, the knee-pan.COMPDS: skeljabrot, skeljahrúga, skeljamoli. -
3 getrask
að, dep. to play at guessing with small shells in the hands, a favourite Icel. child’s play. -
4 HRÖNN
(gen. hrannar, pl. hrannir), f. wave; dat. pl., hrönnum, in heaps (drepr hann hirðmenn konungs niðr hrönnum).* * *f., gen. hrannar, pl. hrannir, a wave, esp. used in poetry, Stor. 6, Hkv. 1. 26, passim: a ship is called hrann-blakkr, -valr, the steed, hawk of the wave, (also hranna elgr, hranna hrafn, the elk, raven of the wave); gold is called hrann-blik, -eldr, wave-fire, Lex. Poët.: hrann-garðr, m. a wall of waves, id.II. in prose, old and esp. mod., hrannir, f. pl. the heaps or swathes of seaweed and shells along the beach; hræs hrannir, heaps of slain, Edda (Ht.)2. dat. pl. hrönnum, adverb. in heaps, Lat. catervatim, = unnvörpum, drepr hann hirðmenn konungs hrönnum niðr, Fas. i. 105.III. one of the northern Nereids was called Hrönn, Edda. -
5 HVERN
* * *or hvörn, f. [proncd. kvörn or kvern, but distinction is to be made between kvern, mola, and hvern, cerebrum; for in the latter word h is the true initial, as is shewn by comparison with Ulf. hwairnei = κρανίον, Mark xv. 22; Scot. harns; Germ. hirn; Swed. hjerna; Dan. hjerne, which stand in the same relation to hvern as hjól to hvel]:— the two boat-formed white bones embedded in a fish’s brains. These bones, as well as shells, are in Icel. collected and used by children in the game of guessing, as nuts etc. are in England; hann lauk þá upp höfuðskeljum mannanna, og tók hnefa-fylli úr hverju höfði og hugði vandliga að; eintómar hvarnir, og ekki nema tvær í þorsk-kindinni, Fjölnir (1845) 52. hvarnar-skeljar, f. pl. = hvarnir. -
6 MAÐKR
(-s, -ar), m. maggot, grub, worm; maðka fœzla, food for worms.* * *m. [Ulf. mada = σκώληξ; A. S. madu; O. H. G. mado; Germ. made; an augmented form, Engl. maggot, qs. madog: Dan. madike; Norse makk, Ivar Aasen; Scot. mauch]:—a maggot, grub, worm; dvergarnir höfðu kviknat sem maðkar í holdi Ýmis … ok vóru þá maðkar, Edda 9; vall hann allr möðkum í hel, Rb. 414; mölu ok maðka, Fb. ii. 78; síðan hitti Þorbjörn í maðka-sjó sem liggr nær Vínlandi, … ok maðkr sá smó neðan skipit til úfæru, A. A. 198, 199; þar drógu vér maðka digrari manns læri, Al. 174, Stj. 91, Sks. 50 (improp. of an insect); ámu-maðkr, a rain worm; sjó-maðkr, sea worms, Þorf. Karl. 438; skel-maðkr, worms with shells, id. maðka-veita, u, f. a brood of maggots. -
7 sam-lokur
f. pl. a pair of shells fastened together. -
8 skelja-hrúga
u, f. a mound of shells, Mag.
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