páskafriður
Icelandic
Etymology
From páskar (“Easter”) + friður (“peace”).
Noun
páskafriður m (genitive singular páskafriðar, no plural)
- (historical, Catholicism) Truce of God around Easter (feuding being prohibited by the Church from the last Sunday before Lent until the 8th day of Easter)
- ca. 1230, Snorri Sturluson, Ólafs saga helga in Heimskringla:
- Er eigi það dauðasök Skjálgur ef maður brýtur páskafrið
- Is it not a matter of death, Skjalg, that a man break the Easter peace.
Declension
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | páskafriður | páskafriðurinn |
| accusative | páskafrið | páskafriðinn |
| dative | páskafriði | páskafriðnum, páskafriðinum1 |
| genitive | páskafriðar | páskafriðarins |
1Less common.
References
- Torfi H. Tulinius (1996) “Guðs lög í verkum Snorra Sturlusonar”, in Ný saga[1], pages 33-34