leiðsla

f.

1) guidance, leading;

2) burial, interment.

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u, f. guidance, leading, Hom. 61, Anal. 292; hand-l., passim in mod. usage: metaph. a vision, being ‘led’ in a vision through heaven and hell, as in Dante’s Commedia, the Sólarljóð, and other works of the Middle Ages; leiðsla Rannveigar, Bs. i. 451; Duggals-leiðsla, the Vision of Duggal, an old legend; hence the mod. phrase, ganga í leiðslu, to walk as in absence of mind or distraction.

II. burial, interment, Fas. i. 204, Bret.; út-leiðsla. leiðslu-drykkja, u, f. a parting bout, Hkr. iii. 181.