SERKR

(pl. -ir), m.

1) sark, shirt (þú skalt fara í serk minn); hafa dreng í serk, to have a man inside one’s shirt, to be bold and courageous; hamarrinn var svá lítill, at hafa mátti í serk sér, that one could conceal it in one’s bosom;

2) a certain number of skins.

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m., pl. serkir, [Old Engl. and Scot. sark; Dan. sœrk], a sark, shirt; þú skalt fara í serk minn, Fms. iii. 190; s. af sauðar-ullu, 180; serkr eða skyrta, Edda; tók ek hamar ór serk mér, Fms. x. 329; síðar slæðr, serk bláfán, Rm. 26; blóðgan hugðak mæki borinn ór serk þínum, Am. 23; serki valrauða, Akv. 4; hón tekr ór serk sér steina-sörvi mikit, Ísl. ii. 343; hann var svá, lítill af hafa mátti í serk sér, Edda; Gísli vermir höndina í serk sér, Gísl. 29; hafa dreng í serk sér, to have a man inside one’s sark, to be a bold true-hearted man, Fms. ix. 381: messu-s., a priest’s cope, Vm. 156: poët. of a shirt of mail, hring-s., járn-s., Lex. Poët.

II. a ‘timber,’ a certain number, of skins; fjóra tigi serkja grárra skinna, Fms. xi. 325.