blót

See also: blot, Blot, blöt, and błot

English

Noun

blót (plural blóts)

  1. A Norse ceremonial offering.
    • 2002, Peter Shenk, Horse Burial in Scandinavia during the Viking Age, University of Oslo, page 17.
      The [blót] was reciprocal. People gave [gifts] so that the [æsir, alfar, or other vættir] would give back gifts.
    • 2001, John Lindow, Handbook of Norse Mythology, ABC-CLIO, page 35
      These show us the importance of verbal activity at a blót, specifically verbal activity aimed at producing a result, presumably by means of intervention by the deities.
    • 2005, Galina Krasskova, Exploring the Northern Tradition: A Guide to the Gods, Lore, Rites, and Celebrations from the Norse, German, and Anglo-Saxon Traditions, Career Press, page 151
      In the past, before Christianity spread across Europe, the average blót would generally have involved some sort of animal sacrifice.
    • 2006, Anders Andrén, Kristina Jennbert, Catharina Raudvere, Old Norse Religion in Long-term Perspectives: Origins, Changes, and Interactions : an International Conference in Lund, Sweden, June 3-7, 2004, Nordic Academic Press, page 75
      He soon comes back to land, makes a largely undescribed blót sacrifice to Óðinn, and receives confirmation of his god's approval in the flight of two cawing ravens.
  2. A modern reinvention of the Norse ceremonial offering.
    • 2009,, The Ásatrú Edda: Sacred Lore of the North, The Norroena Society, page 5
      Do you know how to blót? / Do you know how to slaughter?

Anagrams

Old Norse
FWOTD – 17 July 2014

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *blōtą (“offering, sacrifice”). Cognate with Old English blōt and possibly the first part of Old High German bluozhūs (“heathen temple”).
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlād- (“to offer, sacrifice”).

Pronunciation
  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈbloːt/

Noun

blót n (genitive blóts, plural blót)

  1. (Heathenry, especially in the plural) offering.
    • Kristni saga 11, in 1858, J. Sigurðsson, G. Vigfússon, Biskupa sögur, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 20:
      […] fyri norðan, þar voru áðr blót ok hörgar.
      […] to the north, there were up to now offerings and personal shrines.
  2. (Heathenry) sharing the food of an offering in a ceremony, feast.
    • Separate Saga of St. Olaf 96, in 1853, P. A. Munch, C. R. Unger, Saga Olafs konungs ens Helga. Copenhagen, page 104:
      En þat er siðr þeirra at hafa blot a havst oc fagna þa vetri, […]
      But it is a custom for them to have a feast at fall and celebrate the winter, […]
  3. (Heathenry) offering site, a place to make offerings
    • Borgarthings-Christenret 24, in 1846, E. Hertzberg, Norges gamle love indtil 1387, Volume I. Christiania, page 383:
      Engi maðr ſkal hafa i huſi ſinu ſtaf eða ſtalla, vit eða blot, […]
      No man shall have in his house a staff or an altar, a charm or an offering site, […]
  4. cursing, an offering for the purpose of seeking vengeance against an other
    • Sturlunga saga, chapter IV, 50, in 1817, Þ. E. Rangel, Sturlunga-Saga edr Íslendínga-Saga hin mikla, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 101:
      […] snéri hann til dura ok sá fimm menn úti, heyrdi hann þá blot, […]
      […] he turned to the doors and saw there five men, and then heard cursing, […]

Declension
  Declension of blót (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative blót blótit blót blótin
accusative blót blótit blót blótin
dative blóti blótinu blótum blótunum
genitive blóts blótsins blóta blótanna

Derived terms
Terms derived from blót
  • blótan (“sacrificing”)
  • blótauðigr (“rich in sacrifice”)
  • blótbað (“sacrificial bath”)
  • blótbiskup (“heathen priest”)
  • blótbolli (“sacrificial bowl”)
  • blótdómr (“idolatry”)
  • blótdrykkja (“sacrificial feast”)
  • blótfé (“sacred goods”)
  • blótgoði (“heathen priest”)
  • blótgrǫf (“sacrificial den”)
  • blótguð (“heathen god”)
  • blótgyðja (“heathen priestess”)
  • blóthaugr (“sacrificial mound”)
  • blóthof (“heathen temple”)
  • blóthús (“heathen house of worship”)
  • blóthǫrgr (“sacrificial altar”)
  • blótkalfr (“the golden calf”)
  • blótkelda (“sacrificial fen”)
  • blótklæði (“sacrificial garments”)
  • blótkona (“idolatress”)
  • blótlundr (“sacred grove”)
  • blótmaðr (“idolater”)
  • blótmatr (“food eaten at sacrificial feast”)
  • blótnaðr (“idolatry”)
  • blótnaut (“sacrificial ox”)
  • blótprestr (“heathen priest”)
  • blótrisi (“giant worshipped as an idol”)
  • blótskapr (“heathenry, idolatry”)
  • blótskógr (“sacred forest”)
  • blótspánn (“chip used in divination”)
  • blótstaðr (“place of sacrifice”)
  • blótstallr (“sacrificial altar”)
  • blóttré (“sacred tree”)
  • blóttrygill (“sacrificial trough”)
  • blótveizla (“sacrificial feats”)
  • blótviðr (“sacred wood”)
  • blótvilla (“heathen heresy”)
  • blótvǫllr (“sacrificial field”)
  • goðablót (“sacrifice to the gods”)
  • blœti (“idol”)

Descendants

References
  • blót in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
  • blót in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
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