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1 SVERFA
* * *(sverf; svarf, surfum; sorfinn), v. to file (svarf hann með snarpri þél); láta s. til stáls, see stál; sverfr at, it presses hard.* * *sverf; pret. svarf, pl. surfu: part. sorfinn; [Ulf. af-swairban = ἐξαλείφειν, ἐκμάσσειν; Engl. swerve; Dutch swerven; Swed. swerfva]:—to file; járn sorfit, Stj. 160; sverfr hann, 158; svarf hann með snarpri þél, Bs. i. 237; sverfa til stáls, to ‘file to the steel’ to the core, i. e. to fight it out to the last; kvað þá verða at s. til stáls með þeim, Fms. vii. 244; láta þá til stáls sverva með þeim, Ó. H. 41; ok láta s. til stáls með ykkr bræðrum, Fb. ii. 122, Orkn. 234, 428: sverfr at, it presses hard; er í kreppingar kemr ok at sverfr, Fms. iv. 147. -
2 veîra, sverfa, eyîa
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3 SVARF
* * *I) n.1) file-dust;2) a hard fray, broil, tumult (hann ríðr at í þessu svarfi);3) robbery, extortion (með ránum ok svörfum).* * *n. [sverfa], file dust; þélar hann sverðit allt í sundr í svarf eitt, Þiðr. 79; járn-svarf, kopar-s.; rauð svörf þélar, Lex. Poët., freq. in mod. usage.II. metaph. a hard fray, broil; þeim þótti í orðit nokkut svarf, Ísl. ii. 411; hann ríðr at í þessu svarfi, in the midst of the fray, Al. 40; ok sannast hit fornkveðna, at sitt ráð tekr hverr er í svörfin ferr, Fms. iv. 147.2. plur. shaving, extortion; með ránum ok svörfum, Fms. iii. 146; margr hefir sá meiri svörf ( is more exacting), er minna treystir göngum, Skíða R. 23 (the passage should thus be emended). -
4 óð-inndæll
adj. [see the preceding word], self-willed, puzzling (?); miklu eru menn þeir óðindælli en vér fám við þeim séð, they are much too headstrong, more than a match for us, Fms. xi. 151; er nú einsætt at láta sverfa til stáls með oss, ok eigi víst hvárt færi manna óðindælla verðr en svá (seems here to stand for ú-óðindælla (?) = less embarrassing opportunity), Sturl. i. 157. -
5 STÁL
* * *from stela.* * *n. [a common Teut. word; O. H. G. stahal], steel; sterkasta stáli, Karl. 285, Fms., x. 172, passim: phrases, sverfa til stáls, to file to the very steel, to fight to the last, vii. 244, Gullþ. 69.2. plur., of weapons: er stálin mættusk. Art., Lex. Poët. passim.3. a part of a ship, the beak; þeir höfðu raskótt fyrir stálinu, Fms. viii. 199; kjalar, stála, súða, Edda 66, Lex. Poët.II. metaph., from steel wrapped in soft iron before being fused in the forge:— the inside of a hay-stack or rick (= staði); hann tók laust hey ór stálinu. Njarð. 378; ef maðr á korn falt í stáli eðr hey, N. G. L. ii. 111 (v.r. to staði), freq. in mod. usage.2. an intercalary sentence in a verse, much used by the ancient poets, esp. in the metre dróttkvætt, Edda i. 618; thus in Haustl. 13 the words ‘sveipr varð í för’ is a stál. In the old poems of the metre dróttkvæð the strophes are interwoven with such intercalary sentences; in some editions these sentences are marked by [ ] or by ():—as a gramm. term, embolismus, köllum var þat gört á stál ef á meðal verðr hendinga, Skálda ii. 106.COMPDS: stálbroddr, stálgaddr, stálgörr, stálhanzki, stálharðr, stálhattr, stálhjálmr, stálhúfa, stálnagli, stálpík, stálslá, stálsleginn, stálsorfinn. -
6 þela
* * *að, [Ivar Aasen tela], in part. þelaðr; refill ný-þelaðr, hangings new and thick (the nap not yet worn off), Dipl. v. 18 (see p. 460, col. 1). -
7 þéla
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8 sorfinn
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9 surfu
from sverfa.
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