feigð

From Old Norse feigð, from Proto-Germanic *faigiþō.

• IPA^(key): /feiɣð/
• Rhymes: -eiɣð

feigð f (genitive singular feigðar, no plural)

1. (dated) feyness, an approaching death or approach of death, imminent death, a foreboding of death
   • 13th century, (Please provide the book title or journal name), translation of Njáls saga:

     „Koma mun til mín feigðin,“ segir Gunnar, „hvar sem eg er staddur ef mér verður þess auðið.“

     "Feyness will come to me when it will come," says Gunnar, "wherever I may be, if that is my fate."

   Feigð kallar að honum.

   Death calls upon him.

• feigur
• feigðarorð