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Old Norse
Etymology
goð (“a god, gods”) + gremi (“wrath, anger”)
Noun
goðagremi f
- wrath of the gods, especially for breaking oaths
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Egils saga :
- ek banna jarðir þær allar, er Bjǫrn hefir átt, at byggja ok at vinna. Banna ek þér, Berg-Ǫnundr, ok ǫðrum mǫnnum ǫllum, innlenzkum ok útlenzkum, tígnum ok ótígnum, en hverjum manni, er þat gerir, legg ek við lǫgbrot landsréttar ok griða rof ok goðagremi.
- I forbid settling and farming on all those lands owned by Beorn; I forbid you, Barrow-Anund, and all other men, native and alien, noble and not noble. But every man who does that, I lay upon him the breaking of the laws of the land, and breach of truce, and the wrath of the gods.
Declension
Declension of goðagremi (weak īn-stem, singular only)
Further reading
- Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “goðagremi”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press