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Zoëga's A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic


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of a column or body of men, opp. to 'hali', the rear (b. fylkingar); (6) vera í broddi lífsins, to be in the prime of life.
brodd-skot, n. a shot with a shaft (broddr);
-spjót, n. a kind of pike (the blade ending in a four-edged point);
-stafr, m., -stöng, f. a (mountaineer's) staff, pole, with an iron spike;
-or, f. a shaft with four-edgepoint, = broddr 2.
brokkari, m. cart-horse, trotter.
brokunar-maðr, m. an intermediary, a broker, = brakki.
brosa (-ta, -at), v. to smile; b. at e-u, to smile at; b. við, to smile in reply (Guðrún leit við honum ok brosti við).
brosa, f. smile (svara með) brosu).
brosan, f. smiling, smile.
bros-leitr, a. with smiling face;
-ligr, a. ridiculous.
brosma, f. a. fish of the cod-kind.
brot, n. (1) breaking (cf 'skipbrot'); sigla til brots, to run ashore under full sail; (2) fragment, broken piece; (3) fracture (bein-brot); (4) a shallow place in a river or a firth; (5) lever; (6) spasm, convulsion, falla í brot, to have an epileptic fit.
brota-silfr, n. old silver broken to be recast.
brot-fall, n. epileptic fit;
-failinn, pp. epileptic, afflicted with epilepsy.
brotfalls-sótt, f. epileptic disease.
brot-feldr, a. = -fallinn; -geiri, m. an angular strip of land.
broti, m. heap of trees felled in a wood (fella brota).
brot-ligr, a. guilty of an offence.
brotna (), to break, be broken; skip brotnar í spán, the ship is broken to pieces.
brotning, f. breaking.
brott, adv. away, off, = braut, burt also á b., í b. (fara b. or á b., hlaupast á b. or í b.).
brott-búinn, a. ready to start;
-búningr, m. preparations for departure.
brottfarar-layfl, n. leave to go away;
-öl, n. parting banquet.
brott-ferð, f. departure
brottferðar-öl, n. = brottfararöl.
brott-flutning, f. carrying off;
-fúsliga, adv. with eagerness to depart;
-fúss, a. eager to depart;
-fýsi, f. eagerness to get away;
-fœrsla, f. transformation;
-för, f. = -ferð;
-gangs, f. departure;
-hald, n. going away (skip var búit til -halds);
-hlaup, n. running away;
-hvarf, n. disappearance;
-höfn, f. taking off;
-kváma, f. coming away;
-laga, f. retreat (after a sea-battle), opp. to 'atlaga';
-reið, f. riding-away;
-rekstr, m. driving away, expulsion;
-sending, f. sending away;
-sigling, f. sailing away;
-sniðning, f. cutting, away or off;
-söngr, m. divine service performed elsewhere than at the parish church;
-taka, f., -tekning, f. taking away, removal;
-tœkiligr, a. removable.
brottu, adv., á b., í b., away = braut, brott (er vér vorum brottu; meðan jarl væri í brottu).
brott-varp, n. throwing away;
-vist, f. absence;
-visan, f. dismissal.
bróðerni, n. brotherhood.
bróðir (gen., dat., and acc. bróður, pl. brœðr), m. (1) brother; (2) friar.
bróður-arfr, m. a brother's inheritance;
-bani, m. the slayer of a brother;
-baugr, m. weregild due to the brother;
-bloð, n. a brother's blood;
-bœtr, f. pl. weregild for a brother;
-dauði, m. a brother's death;
-deild, f.= -hluti;
-dóttir, f. a brother's daughter, niece;
-dráp, n. the slaying of a brother;
-gildr, a. equal in right to a brother;
-gjöld, n. pl. = -bœtr;
-hefnd, f. revenge for the slaying of a brother;
-hluti, m. the share (as to weregild or inheritance) of a brother;
-kona, f., -kván, f. a brother's wife;
-leikr, m. brotherhood;
-ligr, a. brotherly, fraternal (bróðurlig ást).
bróðursonar-baugr, m. weregild for a brother's son.
bróður-sonr, m. a brother's son, nephew.
brók (-ar, pl. brœkr), f. (1) one leg of a pair of breeches (ok lét hann leika laust knéit í brókinni); (2) breeches



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