skolli

m. fox Reynard (hann spurði, hvárt skolli væri inni).

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a, m. the ‘skulker,’ a fox, Reynard, Edda (Gl.); esp. used in nursery tales and in games, e. g. skolla-leikr, the fox-game, blind-man’s-buff, in which every man in turn pats the skolli (the blindfolded man) on the shoulder, shouting, klukk, klukk, skolli minn, klukk, klukk! and then turns round; hann hleypr upp at selinu ok spurði hvárt skolli væri inni, whether the fox were in? Ld. 278, Sturl. iii. 218; hann gaf stór högg á dyrnar ok spurði hvárt skolli væri inni …,—answer, Inni er skolli ok ekki hræddr | bittu til þess að hann er klæddr, Safn i. 53: in the phrase, skella skolla-eyrunum við e-u, to turn a ‘fox-ear’ (deaf-ear) to a thing.

2. the evil one, a word used in swearing; hvaða skolli! skollans! hence in COMPDS: skollabrækr, skollahráki, skollafingr, skollaleikr, skollareipi, skollafótr, skollakál.