Noun: brynje
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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[…] og ned under brynja hans draup der blod. ([…] and down beneath his chain mail came drops of blood.) [1894, Per Sivle, Svolder:]
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Hon flydde honom forgyldte Sverð og Skjold og Brynje bjarte (She gave him gilded sword and shield and (a) shining chain mail) [1853, M.B. Landstad, Ballade om Sigurd Svein (transcription from an oral source):]
Nouns inflected like brynje
sydame,
sengre,
flytebrygge,
sjappe,
smidje,
smerte,
smelle,
smekke,
slynge,
slette,
slegge,
sleipe,
skøyte,
soleie,
smørje,
sildre,
sløyfe,
brennesle,
skunde,
skuffe, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse brynja, from Proto-Germanic *brunjǭ. Akin to English byrnie. See: Old Norse Nouns '
brynja', English Nouns '
byrnie'.
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