skírsla

f. = skírsl; fig. gera skírslu til e-s, to put to the test.

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u, f. a purification, ordeal, see skírsl, Fms. vii. 164, ix. 284, K. Þ. K. 168, Grág. i. 341, 361: in a heathen sense, of passing under a jarðarmen, Ld. 58: metaph., göra skírslu til e-s, to put to the test, Fms. xi. 95, Orkn. 356.