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Old Norse
Etymology
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Noun
orrosta f
- battle
- Haralds saga hins hárfagra 2.
Eptir þessar orrostur ferr Haraldr konungr ok Guthormr hertogi ok alt lið þat, er þeir fá, ok venda til Upplanda ok fara mjǫk markleið- After this battles king Harald, and duke Guthorm, and all the warriors they managed to get, went back to Oppland, using mostly the forest paths
hin ákafasta orrosta- a very tough battle
- Synonym: bardagi
Declension
Declension of orrosta (weak ōn-stem)
References
- “orrosta”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press