- gaupnir
- f. pl.1) the two hands placed together so as to form a bowl; sjá, horfa, líta, lúta í g. sér, to cover one’s face with the hands (as a token of sorrow, or in prayer);2) double handful (g. silfrs).
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.