rifja

(að), v.

1) to turn over (r. hey);

2) to expound, explain, go into (mikil skynsemi er at r. vandliga þat).

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að, to rake hay into rows (rifgarðar); rifja hey, Eb. 260, and in mod. usage.

II. to repeat (akin to reifa); mikil skynsemi er at r. vandliga þat, Edda 14: in the phrase, rifja e-ð upp, r. upp harm sinn, to rip up one’s sorrow, Clem. 45; r. e-ð upp fyrir sér, to go over with oneself, as to what one has learnt, but half forgotten.