GLOSSARY
- SID, declining, hanging, tending downward.
- SIDHOTTR, lit. Hanging-hat or hood.
- SIDSKEGGR, lit. Hanging-beard; E. shag and shaggy.
- SIP, signifying peace, friendship, relationship, a goddess, Sibja, Sippia, and Sib.
- SIGFADIR, or SIGFODUR, the Father of Victory; L. pater.
- SILFRINTOPPR, Silver-mane; E. silver: toppr, see Gulltoppr.
- SINDRI, either scintillating or producing dross.
- SJOFNA. F. Mag. derives it from the v. sja, to see.
- SKADI, the magpie received its name from this goddess.
- SKAFIDR, shaving, scraping.
- SKEGGOLD, lit. Old-beard; also denoted a particular kind of battle-axe.
- SKEIDBRIMIR, any space of time that is elapsing.
- SKIDBLADNIR, lath, shingle, billet of wood, a sheath; E. blade, a blade or leaf of grass.
- SKILFINGR, prob. to shake, to shatter.
- SKINFAXI, Shining-mane: skin, splendour, light.
- SKIRNIR, serene, pure, clear; E. sheer, which had formerly the same meaning.
- SKOGUL, prob. from v. skaga, to jut out; whence skagi, a promontory.
- SKOLL, to stick to, to adhere, to strike, to smite.
- SLEIPNIR. E. slippery.
- SLIDRUGTANNI, cruel, fierce, savage.
- SNOTRA, to blow the nose; a person, even a goddess, being much more tidy when the nostrils are thoroughly emunctated.
- SOKKVABEKKR, lit. Sinking-brook; to sink; an estuary, a shore, a brook.
- SON, sound, song, sonus, cantus.
- SURTUR, obscure, invisible; and invisible, unintelligible!! Surtur, according to Fin Magnusen, the invisible, unintelligible being whom the ancient Scandinavians regarded as "the great First Cause least understood" of all things.
- SVADILFARI, lubricity, also slippery ice.
- SVAFNIR, prob. from v. svefa, to cast asleep; sleep, quiet, repose.
- SVALINN, the Refrigerating; to cool, to refrigerate.
- SVARTALFAHEIMR, lit. Black or Swart Elves' home, region of the Elves of Darkness in contradistincition to that of the Elves of Light.
- SVARTHOFDI, Black-head; svartr, black, swart.
- SVASUTHR, Sweet-south; blithe, jocund, dear.
- SVIDR and SVIDRIR, from v. svida, to scorch; or wise, powerful.
- SVIPALL, to hasten, to vibrate; to wave, to hover; also with E. v. to sweep.
- SYLGR, a draught or deglutition; to swallow; to swill; to guzzle, to feast.
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