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viki-vaki,
a,
m.
[this
word,
which
hardly
occurs
in
old
writers,
seems
in
the
15th
century
to
have
been
adopted]
:--
a
weekly
wake,
popular
festival
meetings
and
entertainments
on
Sunday
evenings,
with
song
and
dance;
förum
vér
til
vikivaka
|
værðir
þar
og
hvíld
að
taka,
Eggert;
songs
and
ballads
sung
at
such
weekly
wakes
were
called
either
vikivaka-kvæði
or
forn-kvæði,
q.v.
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