KALKR

(-s, -ar), m. drinking-cup, goblet (kalkr er þú skalt drekka af).

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m. [borrowed from Lat. calix; A. S. calic and calc; Engl. chalice; O. H. G. chelih; Germ. kelk; Dan.-Swed. kalk; the word came in with Christianity from the Engl.; for, though it occurs in ancient poems, none of these can be older than the Danish settlement in England: the form kalkr is used in a heathen sense, whereas the later form kaleikr is used in the ecclesiastical sense only]:—a chalice, cup, goblet, it occurs in the poems Hým. 28, 30, 32, Akv. 30, Rm. 29, Skv. 3. 29; hrím-kalkr, Ls. 53; silfr-k., a silver cup, Hkr. i. 50; nú er hér kalkr, er þú skalt drekka af, eptir þat tók hann kalkinn, þá var enn eptir í kalkinum, er hann hafði af drukkit kalkinum, Gullþ. 7; nú tók hann kalkinn ok hönd hennar með, Hkr. i. 50.