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the skin of the shanks

  • 1 hemingr

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    m. (hömungr, N. G. L. ii. 511), [höm = a shank], the skin of the shanks of a hide; eigi vilda ek sjá þá húð er þú ert einn h. af, Fb. iii. 405; in N. G. L. i. 208 referring to a curious old ceremony of adoption:—the adopted son himself and his nearest heirs were to put their feet into a shoe made from the skin of the right leg of a three years old ox, cp. Ruth iv. 7, and Deut. xxv. 9.
    II. a pr. name, Fb. iii, prob. derived from this mode of adoption.

    Íslensk-ensk orðabók > hemingr

  • 2 skekill

    (pl. skeklar), m. shank of a hide; cf. eyjarskekill, landskekill.
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    (better skekkill with kk), m. dimin., [skiki: akin to Engl. shank]:— the shanks or legs of an animal’s skin when stretched out, hence út-skekill, an outskirt, of a land or field, tún-skekill, land-skekill, q. v.
    II. as a nickname, Sturl.: the mythol. name of a sea-king, Edda.

    Íslensk-ensk orðabók > skekill

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