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Icelandic
Noun
fleygir m (genitive singular fleygis, nominative plural fleygjar)
- (archaic or poetic) thrower, sharer, wielder (used in kennings for men in conjunction with names for weapons or gold)
1884 [c. 1350], Amícus rímur ok Amilíus:Síðan bjuggust fljótt til ferða / Fleygjar stáls og brjótur sverða.- Then they quickly prepared for the journey / Wielders of steel and breakers of swords.
1947 [c. 1700], Guðmundur Bergþórsson, edited by Björn K. Þórólfsson and Finnur Sigmundsson, Olgeirs rímur danska (overall work in Danish):
1961—1965 [c. 1840], Sigurður Breiðfjörð, edited by Finnur Jónsson, Rímnasafn, volumes I—V (overall work in Danish):
Declension
Declension of fleygir (masculine)
References
- Finnur Jónsson, Ordbog til de af Samfund til Udg. ad Gml. Nord. Litteratur Udgivne Rímur samt til de af Dr. O. Jiriczek Udgivne Bósarimur, Samfund til Udg. ad Gml. Nord. Litteratur, 51 (Copenhagen: Jørgensen, 1926–28), s.v. fleygir.