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Old Norse
Etymology
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Noun
egðir m pl
- the inhabitants of Agðir
c. 1070, Steinn Herdísarson,
Ólafsdrápa stanza 6.3:
- ætt þreifsk egða dróttins
- the clan of the Lord of the egðir (Norwegian king = saint Olaf) has prospered
Declension
Declension of egðir, (strong i-stem, s-genitive, plural only)
Descendants
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “egðir”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive