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skáld-mær, adj. a 'skald-maid,' poetess, a nickname of the poetess Jórunn, Fms. i. 13; the name of her poem Sendi-bít looks as if it had been of a 'biting' libellous kind.
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skáld-skapr, m. 'scaldship,' poetry: I. a libel in verse; eigi skal lýsa legorðs-sök um skáldskap, Grág. i. 351; ef maðr kveðr skáld-skap til háðungar manni, ... ok varðar þat skóggang, skal sækja sem annan skáldskap, ii. 151, see the whole chapter in Kb. ch. 238, inscribed, um Skáldskap, of Libels; the word is therefore used synonymously with danz and flimt, níð, q.v. II. poetry in a good sense, Edda passim; Sighvatr var ekki hrað-mæltr maðr í sundr-lausum orðum, en s. var honum svá tiltækr, at hann kvað af tungu fram svá sem hann mælti annat mál, Ó.H. 171; ok kom þar brátt talinu at þeir ræddu um skáldskap, þótti hvárum-tveggja þær ræður skemtiligar, Eg. 686; skáld-skapar grein, -háttr, poetical metre, Skálda 183, 210; skáldskapar laun = skáldfé, Eg. 152. Skáld-skapar-mál, n. pl. poetical diction, Edda 49, Skálda 195; hence the name of the second part of the Edda, the ancient Ars Poetica, containing the rules and laws of ancient poetry. &FINGER; Skáldskapr in old writers refers to the 'form' (metre, flow, diction), not to the contents; even in such phrases as, ekki var mikill skáldskapr í því kvæði, there was not much 'scaldship' in that poem, it was a bad composition, Fms. vii. 38.
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skáld-stöng, f. a 'libel-pole,' a pole with imprecations or charms scratched on it; ef maðr reisir stöng ok kallar s., þá hefir hann fyrir-gört hverjum penningi fjár síns, N.G.L. i. 430.
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SKÁLI, a, m. [cp. Scot. shieling; Ivar Aasen skaale = shieling] :-- prop. a hut, shed, put up for temporary use; this is the earliest Norse sense, and it is still so used in Norway; þar sér enn skála-tópt þeirra ok svá hrófit, Landn. 30; skála vist at Rauðabjörgum, of a fisherman's hut, Vm. 147; skála búi, a hut dweller = a robber, Fs.; hence, leik-skálar, play-shielings, put up when people assembled for sports; gufu-skálar, 'steam-shieling' a local name, of bathing-sheds(?), Landn.; fiski-skálar, fishing shielings; it also remains in local names as Skála-holt. II. a hall (höll is only used of the king's hall), see Orkn. ch. 18, 70, 115, Gísl. 29, Dropl. 18, 28, Fms. i. 288-292, Korm. 58, Bs. i. 41, Fbr. ch. 13 new Ed, Nj. ch. 78, Gunnl. S. ch. 11; in Landn. 1. ch. 2, 2. ch. 13, the skáli is a detached building; drykkju-s., a drinking hall; svefn-s., a sleeping hall. In Grág. i. 459 distinction is made between eldhús and skáli; in the Sturl. skáli is distinguished from stofa; and it seems that the men were seated in the former, the women in
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SKÁLKR, m. [Ulf. skalks = GREEK, skalkinon = GREEK, skalkinassus = GREEK; A.S. scealc; Germ. schalk; the word remains in siniscalc, seneschal; mariscalc, mar-shall = a horse-groom] :-- prop. a 'slave,' 'servant;' skálka þeirra er skjöld bera, Fas. i. (in a verse); but that sense is else lost. 2. a rogue, yet with some notion of a 'mocker,' cp. skelkja and skálkheið, Dan. skalk-agtig; leiðr s., Clar.; ljúga sem skálkr, Rétt. 61, and so in mod. usage, Pass. 8. 19; skálka mark, a brand, 7. 13; skálka-pör, roguery. It is freq. in Germ. pr. names, as, Godi-scalk, whence mod. Icel. Gott-skalk, which appears in Icel. in the 15th century.
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Skáni and Skáney, f.; the gen. Skáneyjar occurs as early as in a poet of the 10th century, the syllable -ey answering to the Latinised -avia :-- Scania, a local name, the Scandia or Scandinavia of Pliny and succeeding geographers, mod. Dan. Skaane; from the Saga time downwards the name of a county formerly belonging to Denmark, but since 1658 to Sweden; it is said to mean border-land, and may be akin to skán. Skáni forms the southernmost point of the great northern peninsula, and was accordingly the first district in the peninsula known to the Romans, whence in Latin writers it became the general name for the whole of the north; but not so in Icel. vernacular writers, who use it only in its proper sense of the county Skáni, Fms., Fb. passim.
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skári or skárri, a compar., superl. skástr, with no corresponding positive, [skái] :-- better, best; þat mun þér ráð skást, it will be most advisable for thee, Fas. i. 421.
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ské, ð, [from Germ. ge-scheben; Dan. skee], to happen; it appears first in the 15th century, í Licia skeði litlu síðarr, Nikdr. 51; þar af hefir opt mikil óhæfa skét, H.E. ii. 168 (seems to be due to a transcript, as are also passages such as Ísl. ii. 66, v.l. 4); after the Reformation the word became freq. in the N.T., Pass., Vídal., cp. also Safn i. 31, 32; in má-ské, kann-ské, may be!
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SKEFLA, ð, [skafl], to be drifted together, massed, of snow; það skeflir yfir það, it was covered with snow: of the waves, haflauðr (acc.) skeflir, Edda (Ht.)
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ánni, Sturl. iii. 23; skapa skeið (or skopa skeið, Fas. ii. 283, Gísl. 69, FS. 51), to take a run, Fas. ii. 553, Al. 169, Edda 31; renna skeið at kastala vegginum, Sturl. ii. 144, Fær. 110; göra skeið at vegginum, Eb. 310; hann görði skeið at dyrunum, Sturl. i. 143; hlaupa á skeið, to take a run, Njarð. 370; taka skeið, Orkn. 416; reyna skeið, Fms. vii. 170. II. a course, of space; var þar gott skeið at renna eptir sléttum velli, ... til skeiðs enda ... á mitt skeiðit, Edda 31; er þeir kómu á skeið þat er síðan er kallað Dúfuness-skeið, ... á miðju skeiði, Landn. 194; skamt skeið, a short way, Fms. viii. 34; fór hann nökkuð skeið með Rafni, Bs. i. 766: langt skeið, Edda 54: = Lat. stadium, Stj., Rb., Eluc. 2. of a space of time; þat var eitt skeið, it was one space of time that ..., Fas. ii. 408; Njáll þagnaði nokkut skeið, a while, Nj. 65; um skeið, for a while, Fms. vii. 339; hann hafði niðri aðra hendina á jörðu, ok bregðr henni annat skeið (every now and then) at nösum sér, Fær. 170; hann lagði sverðit um kné sér ok dró annat skeið til hálfs, Eg. 304: of the time of day, um sólar upprásar-skeið, dagmála-skeið, lýsingar-skeið, miðmunda-skeið, nón-skeið, náttmála-skeið, sólarfalls-skeið, dagsetrs-skeið, miðnættis-skeið, passim; see dagmál, nón, miðmundi, etc.: of the seasons, miðsumars-skeið, vetrnátta-skeið, Leiðar-skeið, see miðsumar, etc.: of life, vera á æsku skeiði, in the prime of life; á léttasta skeiði aldrs, id., Eg. 536. III. in local names, Skeið, Skeiðar-á, Landn. Skeiða-menn, m. pl. the men of S., Sturl.
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