SVÍN

swine

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n. swine, pig; hafa svíns minni, to have a short memory.

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n. [a common Teut. word], a swine, Grág. ii. 315, Fms. i. 213, Fs. 26, Landn. 177: the saying, opt er it sama svín í akri, Fms. vi. 216, viii. 233, Mkv., cp. Odyss. xviii. 29: of the hog-shapen beggar’s scrip, Skíða R.; (cp. Dan. ‘gris,’ = a clay-pig used as a money-box); svíns belgr, blóð, bógr, rani. Fas. iii. 622, Stj. 363, 644, Sturl. iii. 44; svíns hrin, Fas. iii. 149; svíns-lifr, swine’s liver, as a charm used to still enmities or in truce-making, Gkv. 2. 23 (cp. Stj. 363, v. l.,—því vóru heiðnir menn vanir at …); hafa svíns minni, to have a swine’s (i. e. short) memory, Ld. 216.

II. in local names, Svína-fell (whence Svín-fellingar), Svína-vatn, Svína-dalr, Svína-nes, Svín-ey, Svín-hagi, etc., Landn.

COMPDS: svínabæli, svínageymsla, svínahirðir, svínahús.