lúðr

Old Norse

Etymology

Identical to lúðr (“coffin, cradle, log on which a windmill rests”), which Pokorny connects to Proto-Germanic *lawwō (“groove”).

Noun

lúðr m (genitive lúðrs)

1. lur, trumpet, horn
   • 1951, Guðni Jónsson (ed.), Þiðreks saga af Bern, Hefndir Sifka, (normalised version of Bertelsen's edition), Reykjavík

     En Erminrekr konungr lætr á sömu stundu við kveða alla sína lúðra ok lætr Kalla, at allir hans menn skulu taka vápn sín ok hesta. [...] Nú lætr Erminrekr konungr blása sínum lúðrum ok stefnir til sín öllum riddurum ok hefir marga riddara ok ríðr til fundar Egarðs ok hans bróður. Ok er Fritila kemr einn dag at Rín, hlaupa þeir af hestum sínum ok á ána út, liafa hestana með sér yfir ána.

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   • Saga Hákonar, Guttorms ok Inga 12, in 1835, F. Magnússon, C. C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur, Volume IX. Copenhagen, page 30:

     Þorfinnr kom aungu hljóði í lúðrinn, […]

     Thorfinn couldn't blow a sound from the trumpet, […]

   • 1860, C. R. Unger, Karlamagnúss saga, Christiania:

     Hann rétti fram hönd sína og tók Olivant hinn hvella lúðr af hálsi honum.

     He reached out his hand and took Olivant's banging trumpet from his neck

   • 1860, C. R. Unger, “Karlamagnús saga ok kappa hans”, in Af Agulando konungi, Christiania:

     Lætr Agulandus nú blása hvellum lúðrum ok samnar saman miklum mannfjölda af nálægum borgum, velr þar af síðan svá margt sér til fylgdar sem honum líkar.

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   • 1860, C. R. Unger, “Karlamagnús saga ok kappa hans”, in Af Runzivals bardaga, Christiania:

     En þeir blésu í lúðra sína ok glöddust við orð þau.

     But they blew their trumpets and rejoiced at their words.

   blása í lúðr ― blow the trumpet

2. the stand of a hand-mill
   • Gróttasöngr - The Lay of Grotti, or The Mill-Song, 1-5, voluspa.org

     Þær at lúðri leiddar váru ok grjóts gréa gangs of beiddu

     To the mill they both were led, and the grey stone to set a going ordered

3. a vessel (originally a hollowed out tree trunk)

Declension

  Declension of lúðr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lúðr	lúðrinn	lúðrar	lúðrarnir
accusative	lúðr	lúðrinn	lúðra	lúðrana
dative	lúðri	lúðrinum	lúðrum	lúðrunum
genitive	lúðrs	lúðrsins	lúðra	lúðranna

Related terms

• lúðrblástr (“blowing of trumpets”)
• lúðrsveinn (“trumpeter”)
• lúðrþeytari (“trumpeter”)
• lúðrmaðr (“trumpeter”)
• lúðramenn (“trumpeters”)
• lúðragangr (“sound of trumpets”)
• lúðrasöngr (“sound of trumpets”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: lúður
• Faroese: lúður
• Norwegian: lur
• Old Swedish: lūdher, lūdh
  • Swedish: lur
    • → Finnish: luuri
• Danish: lur

See also

• básún, básúna

References

• Entry "lúðr" on page 278 in: Geir T. Zoëga "A Concise Dictionary of Old Islandic", Oxford at the Claredon Press (1910).
• lúðr, norroen.info
• lúðr, Altnordisches Wörterbuch, (4. Auflage) 2014, koeblergerhard.de

Further reading

• “lúðr” in Dictionary of Old Norse Prose (ONP) at University of Copenhagen