hrá-skinn

hrá-skinn
n. ‘raw-skin:’—but used (it is hard to say why) in the sense of a shelter, refuge; höfðu þeir hráskinn hjá feðrum sínum (v. l. hald ok traust), Fbr. 8; Guð, drottinn er minn styrkr ok stuðning, ok mitt ráskinn ok frjálsari, Stj. 51. hráskinns-leikr, m. a kind of game, ‘hide and seek (?),’ Bárð. 174.

An Icelandic-English dictionary. . 1874.

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