egðir

Old Norse

Etymology

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Noun

egðir m pl

1. 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)

masculine	plural
	indefinite	definite
nominative	egðir	egðirnir
accusative	egði	egðina
dative	egðum	egðunum
genitive	egða	egðanna

Related terms

• Agðir

Descendants

• Norwegian Nynorsk: egd m, egde m
• Norwegian Bokmål: egd m, egde m

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “egðir”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive