fleygir

Icelandic

Noun

fleygir m (genitive singular fleygis, nominative plural fleygjar)

1. (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):

     Frá mér reið sá fleygir brands / sem fjandmenn byrstir.

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   • 1961—1965 [c. 1840], Sigurður Breiðfjörð, edited by Finnur Jónsson, Rímnasafn, volumes I—V (overall work in Danish):

     vega ei ég vil að þér / valinn fleygir sverða.

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Declension

Declension of fleygir (masculine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fleygir	fleygirinn	fleygjar	fleygjarnir
accusative	fleygi	fleyginn	fleygja	fleygjana
dative	fleygi	fleyginum	fleygjum	fleygjunum
genitive	fleygis	fleygisins	fleygja	fleygjanna

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.