REYRR

I)

(-ar, dat. -i), m. reed.

II)

m. heap of stones, cairn.

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1.

m., gen. reyrar, and later reyrs, dat. reyri, Hm. 95; [Ulf. raus = κάλαμος; O. H. G. rôr; Germ. rohr; Swed.-Dan. rör]:—the common reed, Lat. arundo, Edda (Gl.); er ek í reyri sat, Hm. l. c.; hólmi reyri vaxinn, … felit ér yðr þer í reyrinum, Fms. i. 71: used for thatching, þakt reyr eðr hálmi, vi. 153; en roknu reyr, the reeky reeds, Orkn. (in a verse): poët., reyrar-leggr, a reed-stalk, a cane (?), Edda (in a verse); hólm-reyrr, ‘holm-reed’ = a snake, id.; öl-reyrr, ‘ale-reed’ = a drinking-horn (?), Bjarn. 24 (in a verse); dal-reyrr, the ‘dale-reed’ = a snake, Ísl. ii. 353 (in a verse); or better dal-reyðr, ‘dale-trout.’

2.

m. [Swed. rör; cp. also hreysi and hrörr, for an h seems to belong to the word, which has been lost in the Swed.]:—a heap of stones, a cairn (= dys); in the old Swed. law rör is a set of mark-stones, þar ær rör sum fæm stenær æru, Schlyter, see the remarks s. v. lyritr; and in the allit. phrase, rå eða rör; it remains in the poët. reyr-þvengr, rör-thong = a snake, Edda (in a verse); as also in Swed. and Norse local names, Yngva-reyr, the cairn of Y., Ýt. 6; Tryggva-reyrr, the cairn of Tryggvi, Fms. i. 60. ☞ The comparison with hrörligr, hrör, hrörna, hreysi (q. v.) seems conclusive that an initial h has been dropped, and that the second r stands for s.