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themostwidelyusedOldIcelandicwordforhorse-fightingishestaling.All
thesewordsarecompoundsthatincloserviewhavedifferentmeaningsandfor
furtherreadingandunderstandingthesubject,itisrequiredtocommentand
trytoorderthem.Itwillservetosimplifymatterstofindonenameforthis
sportbeforeundertakingthefurtherexplorationofthesubject.
Hestalingismadebytwowords:hestr1‘ahorse’ingenitivepluraland
ling1‘ameeting’innominative
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.So,insimplerterms,themeaningofthe
wordisameetingofhorses.Butitcanbesaidthatitwasameetingthecentral
pointofwhichwasahorse-fight
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.Themeetingofhorsesismostlikelynot
onlythenameofthissport,butasporteventtakingplaceduetothemeeting
ofpeoplewhowouldgathertobuyandsellhorses,oronsuchoccasionslike
réttir.Iamsurethatthiswordwasusedtodescribehorse-fightingasanevent
(orpartof)biggereventand,notaparticularfightbetweentwohorses.
Thesecondtermwhichoccursinliteratureishestaat.Thiscompoundword
includeshestrasitwasinthepreviousoneandatwhichintheZoegadiction-
arymeans:“anincitedconflictorfight(seeetja).”EtjahestuminFritzneris
translated:“ophideHesteoedhestavig”
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.
Thelastterm,whichishestavig,alsoincludesthewordhestr,withcom-
poundvig.Fritznertranslatesitasafightorevenakilling
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.Sofromhereon,
thetermusedforhorse-fightingcaneitherbehestavigorhestaat.
Otherwordswhichdescribeparticularfacetsofhorse-fightingare:hes-
takeyrslawhichcouldhavemeanttoprodor‘tobange’thehorse,soitsimply
meants‘toincitethehorsestofight’(asynonymofhestaat)
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.Vighest,which
simplymeansfighting-horse
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.Etjasaman,bita1‘tobite’simplymeant‘to
puthorsestogethertofight’,hestastafrmeaning‘horsestaff’,werealsoused
inahorse-fight
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.
SagasofIcelanders.Ed.V.Hreinsson.Vol.3.Reykjavik1997,p.71:“rióamenntilhesta-
vigs”(themanrodetohorsefights);Gunnarsldtturlióranbanda,in:TheCompleteSagasof
Icelanders…,p.421:“mæltvartilhestaats”(horse-fightwascalled).
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A.B.Magnússon:Íslenskorósifjabók.OróabókHdskolans.Reykjavik1989,pp.324,
117911180.
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J.Fritzner:Ordbogoverdetgamlenorskesprog.Vol.1.Kristiania1886,p.808;
R.Cleasby,G.Vigfusson:AnIcelandic-EnglishDictionary.Oxford1874,p.260.
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J.Fritzner:Ordbog…,pp.8071809;R.Cleasby,G.Vigfusson:AnIcelandic…,
p.134:“etjaprobablymeanstomakeabite,toinciteafight,fighting,biting”.
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J.Fritzner:Ordbog…,p.938;R.Cleasby,G.Vigfusson:AnIcelandic…,p.260.
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J.Fritzner:Ordbog…,p.808.
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Ibidem,p.938;R.Cleasby,G.Vigfusson:AnIcelandic…,p.260.
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R.Cleasby,G.Vigfusson:AnIcelandic…,p.260.
