LYKILL

key

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(pl. luklar and lyklar), m. key.

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m., pl. luklar, mod. lyklar, dat. sing. lykli; [from loka; Dan. nögle; Swed. nyckel, changing l into n]:—a key, Grág. ii. 193, Gþl. 532, Odd. 16, Skálda 172, Fbr. 46 new Ed., N. G. L. i. 131, 383; kistu-lykill, Nj. 94; konungs-lykill, see konungr, Fbr. l. c., Fms. vi. 188: the lady of a house used to wear a bundle of keys at her girdle, hence the phrase in Þkv. 16, 19:—as a musical term, lyklar í symphonu, Skálda. lykla-vald, n. the keeping of the keys.