ofrá

(að), v.

1) to brandish, wave in the air, with dat. (o. vápnum sínum);

2) to raise, lift (o. líkam hins helga Ólafs); þegar er sólu var ofrat, as soon as the sun had risen; o. sér, to raise the head, appear (líðr þá eigi langt áðr gömul úhlýðni ofrar sér);

3) refl., ofrast, to become known (Guðmundr vildi eigi þat o. láta); to pride oneself (af e-u).

* * *

adv. = offrá, from, off, Vþm. 7; whence the contr. form áfrá, Fms. x. 395, 404.