Noun
goð n (genitive singular goðs, nominative plural goð)
- an idol, a pagan god
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Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈɡoð/
Noun
goð n (genitive goðs, plural goð)
- (Germanic paganism) a god, at times more specifically a member of the æsir
- Vǫluspá, verse 6, lines 3-4, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 2:
- […] ginnheilög goð, / ok um þat gættusk: […]
- […] most holy gods, / and held council: […]
- (Christianity, especially in compounds) a god of any polytheism, understood as a false god
- Clemens saga 2, in 1874, C. R. Unger, Postola sögur: Legendariske fortællinger om apostlernes liv. Copenhagen, page 127:
- […] i musteri solar goþs, es Apollo heiter […]
- […] in the temple of the solar god, as Apollo is called […]
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Derived terms
Terms derived from goð
- draumagoð (“Morpheus”)
- goðablót (“sacrifice to the gods”)
- goðagremi (“gods' wrath for oath-breaking”)
- goðaheill (“gods' favor”)
- goðahús (“temple”)
- goðareiði (“gods' wrath for oath-breaking”)
- goðastallar (“temple-altar”)
- goðastúka (“sanctuary”)
- goðatala (“tale of gods”)
- goðborinn (“god-born”)
- goðbrúðr (“Skadi”)
- goðdómr (“godhead”)
- goðgá (“blasphemy”)
- goðkonungr (“king”)
- goðkunnigr, goðkyndr (“of the kith of gods”)
- goðheimr (“home of the gods”)
- goðmálugr (“skilled in the lore of the gods”)
- goðmǫgn (“divine powers, deities”)
- goðorð (“priest's authority”)
- goðorðslauss (“without a priest's authority”)
- goðorðsmaðr (“owner of a priest's authority”)
- goðorðsmál (“action concerning priest's authority”)
- goðorðstilkall (“claim to a priest's authority”)
- goðrifi (“scorn of the gods”)
- goðvefr (“velvet, costly weaving”)
- goðvegr (“way of the gods”)
- goðrækr (“godforsaken, wicked”)
- goðvargr (“one who commits sacrilege in a temple”)
- orrostugoð (“Mars”)
- sólargoð (“Apollo”)
- guð (“1. being known to answer when invoked; 2. infinite God of monotheism”)
- goði (“alternate title for a jarl, invoker or invokee”)
- gyðja (“1. a female goð; 2. a female goði”)
- gyzki (“wonder”)
References
- goð in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- goð in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.