- œgja
- (-ða, -ðr), v.1) to make terrible, exaggerate; mjök hafa þessir œgðir verit í frásögnum, made more terrible than they are;2) to scare, frighten, with dat. (œgir mér ekki þetta fégjald); impers., e-m œgir, one is afraid (er eigi þat, at þér œgi við mik at berjast?);3) to threaten; hón œgði mér af afbrýði, she threatened me in her jealousy; œgja e-m píslum, to threaten with tortures.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.