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sea-shore from which angling is carried on. U. *berg-sát or -sæti, “rocky seat”. See further under sod(i), sb.

berhogg [berhɔg·, bərhɔg·], sb., a bare and elevated place, exposed to the wind; a barren, unfertile pasture; de bare b. Also belhogg [belhɔg·] and bolbogg [bȯlhɔg·]. N.I. Prob.: *berhǫgg; No. berrhogg, n., exposed place (R.; in suppl.: berrhogg, “bærröug” of a treeless field); O.N. “berhǫgg” is handed down in diff. sense, berhogg is scarcely syn. with hog- (hoga, hogen), pasture.

berin [bērin], sb., 1) the act of carrying; 2) dense snow-fall during which the snow is whirled together in drifts, a snaw [‘snow’]-b.; cf. fogbord(er), kavabord.

berinband [bē··rınbānd·], sb., a band fixed to the side of a basket (kessi). Cf. fetel, sb.

berinkessi [bē··rınkɛᶊ·ɩ], sb., a dosser, carried on a person’s back (opposite to kessi, used on a pack-horse).

berk [bə‘rk], sb., 1) skin on the surface of a liquid, esp. on boiled milk, also on sowans and porridge; comm.; 2) a covering of clouds in the sky. O.N. bǫrkr, m., bark, exterior covering on trees, Icel. and Fær. börkur, m., skin on boiled milk.

berk [bə‘rk], vb., of clouds: to gather; of the sky: to be overcast; comm. in perf. part.: “berket [bə‘rkət] ower”; de sky is berket ower (Du.), the sky is overcast.

*berkenfot [bə‘r··kənfȯt·], sb., defined as the foot of a horse, leg of a horse. Lunn. Occurs in an old riddle, now falling into disuse:

Hedder-co’-røt [‘heather-cow-root’] I grow,
berkenfot I stand,
I rade a mare, was never foaled,
“leded” [‘led’] de midder [‘mother’] atill my hand.

“hedder-cow” = tuft of heather, heather-bush, L.Sc. heather-cow(e). “Whisky” is given as the solution of

the riddle. According to an old tradition, a sort of whisky or liqueur was brewed from heather-berries. The roots of the heather-bush are said at times to be shaped like a horse’s foot. — With berken- (?) cf. No. “borke” as a horse-name, name of a horse of a pale yellow with a touch of reddish shade; “borkutt”, adj., esp. of horses of such a colour.

berket [bə‘rkət], adj., 1) covered with a skin, e.g. of boiled milk, gruel, porridge; 2) of the sky: overcast, covered with unbroken clouds, a b. sky (Nm.). *bǫrkóttr. See berk, sb. and vb.

berki, birki [bə‘rki], sb., = berkikepp and berkiklepp.

berkikepp, birki- [bə‘r··kiᶄɛp·], sb., a crooked piece of iron fixed to a wooden handle, for tearing up the tormentilla by the root. Woodwick, U. *berki (or birki)- keppr, in which *berki (or birki)- is a deriv. of “bark-”; cf. No. berkja, vb., to strip off the bark, O.N. (O.Norw.) birkja, vb. See kepp, sb., and cf. the foll. word.

berkiklepp, birki- [bə‘r··kiklɛp·, bı‘r··ki-], sb., = berkikepp and barkklepp. Uⁿ. *berki- or birki-kleppr. The form berki, likewise peculiar to Uⁿ., is doubtless an abbr. of berkiklepp. See klepp, sb.

bernbund, bairnbund [bērnbond], adj., of a woman: hindered by having a child to take care of, = No. barnbunden. N.I. bern- is a L.Sc. form: bairn; the regularly developed Norn forms are: a) bonn in *bonnens (bonjens) and in compds. as bonnhoga, bonsvamm, and b) *bjadn- (Fo.).

berndom, bairndom [bērndɔm], sb., childhood. With ref. to bern- see above bernbund, adj.

bernjuggel, sb., see varnagl, sb.

berrel [bærəl], sb., point or summit of a rock. Rare. Deriv. of berg.

*berri [bæri], vb., to thrash corn,