goðagremi

Old Norse

Etymology

goð (“a god, gods”) +‎ gremi (“wrath, anger”)

Noun

goðagremi f

1. wrath of the gods, especially for breaking oaths
   • Anonymous, 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)

feminine	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	goðagremi	goðagremin
accusative	goðagremi	goðagremina
dative	goðagremi	goðagreminni
genitive	goðagremi	goðagreminnar

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “goðagremi”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press