GLOSSARY
- BIVAURR, BIVORR, or BIFUR, the Tremulous.
- BODN, originally signified an offer-table or altar; an oblation; also one of the jars in which the dwarfs' poetical beverage was kept.
- BOLTHORN, lit. Calamitous or Evil-thorn.
- BOR, prop. BORR, and BUR, prop. BURR or BURI, means born, to bear; whence also the Old G. barn, and the Scotch, bairn, a child.
- BRAGI, the name of the God of Poetry; from braga, to glisten, to shine, or from bragga, to adorn; ph. cog. with G. pracht, splendour.
- BREIDABLIK: lit. Broad-blink—wide-glancing, expanded splendour, to blink.
- BRIMIR, prob. from brimi, flame.
- BRISINGR, may prob. mean flaming.
- BYLEISTR, a dwelling, a town; to destroy, to break to pieces.
- BYRGIR, prob. from v. byrgja, to conceal; E. to bury, whence barrow, a tumulus.
- DAINN, prob. the Soporiferous; from da, a swoon, or complete repose.
- DELLINGR—a day-ling, with the dawn, daybreak.
- DIS, pl. DISIR, it originally sig. a female, but was afterwards used in the sense of Nymph and Goddess. It enters into the composition of several female names, as Thordis, Freydis, Vegdis, &c.
- DOLGTHRASIR: a dolgr, a warrior; contentious, obstinate, persisting, from the v. thrasa, to litigate, to quarrel.
- DRAUPNIR, from the v. drupa, to droop, or the v. drjupa, to drip.
- DROMI, strongly binding.
- DUNEYRR, a hollow sound, from the v. dynja, to sound, to resound.
- DURATHROR. The first sylb. may be derived either from dur, a light sleep, or from dyr, a door; and the last, either from the v. threyja, to expect, to wait for; or from throa, to increase, to enlarge.
- DURINN, prob. from dur, a light sleep, to fall asleep; whence prob. the E. to doze, and ph. also dusk.
- DVALINN, from dvali, sleep.
- EIKINSKJALDI, furnished with an oaken shield, scarlet oak.
- EIKTHYRNIR. Eik is the ilex or scarlet oak; thyrnir, a thorn; metaphorically for a stag's antlers.
- EINHERJAR, a hero; select, chosen heroes.
- EIR, to befriend, to tranquilize.
- ELDHRIMNIR: eldr, elementary fire: hrim, congealed vapour, rime, also soot; hence (a kettle) sooty from fire.
- ELIVAGAR, stormy waves; a storm; the sea; an estuary; water; wave.
- ELLI, old age.
- ELVIDNIR, ph. from el, a storm; and vidr, wide.
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