- sótigr
- a. sooty; hann kom eigi undir sótkan rapt, he never came under a sooty rafter.* * *adj. sooty; hann svaf aldri undir sótkum ási, Hkr. i. 43; þat var þrjá vetr er hann lá úti á herskipum svá at hann kom eigi undir sótkan rapt, so that he never came under a sooty rafter, Orkn. 478; both passages refer to the old laws of Wikings and warriors, and resemble in sense and phrase the words of Ariovistus, ‘tectum non subissent,’ in Caesar B.G. i. 36.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.