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auk-nefni,
n.
'eke-name,'
a
nickname:
.
a
defamatory
name,
punishable
with
the
lesser
outlawry,
Grág.
ii.
146.
.
in
a
less
strong
sense;
hann
var
svartr
á
hár
ok
hörund,
ok
því
þótti
honum
a.
gefit
er
hann
var
Birtingr
kallaðr,
he
was
swarth
of
hair
and
skin,
and
for
that
it
seemed
a
nickname
was
given
him
when
he
was
called
'Brighting,'
Fms.
vii.
157:
Helgi
átti
kenningar
nafn,
ok
var
kallaðr
hvíti;
ok
var
þat
eigi
a.,
því
at
hann
var
vænn
maðr
ok
vel
hærðr,
hvítr
á
hár,
Helgi
had
a
surname
(in
a
good
sense),
and
was
called
'White;'
and
that
was
no
nickname,
for
he
was
a
handsome
man
and
well-haired,
white
of
hair,
Fbr.
80:
þú
hyggr
at
ek
muna
vilja
giptast
einum
bastarði,
--
eigi
em
ek
bastarðr
nema
at
a.,
of
William
the
Conqueror,
Fb.
iii.
464.
In
old
times,
esp.
at
the
time
of
the
colonisation
of
Iceland,
such
nicknames
were
in
freq.
use,
as
may
be
seen
from
the
index
in
the
Landnama;
they
gradually
went
out
of
use,
but
still
occur
now
and
then
throughout
the
whole
of
the
Saga
period
in
Icel.
down
to
the
14th
century.
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