Meaning of høde | Babel Free

Definitions

to threaten with the hand

archaic, dialectal

Examples

“Da mon med Miølner høde Den Herre kiæk og bold; Han vilde slaae til Døde I Hast den arge Trold”

Then the brave and bold lord would threaten with Mjølnir; in great haste, he would slay the evil troll

“https://kalliope.org/da/text/grundtvig2018092206 Ja, hører mig, Brødre, I Skjoldunge-Land, Hvis Ammer og Mødre Var Døttre af Dan, Hvis Hamre har hødet,”

Hear me, brothers, in the Land of Skjoldungs, you whose nurses and mothers were daughters of Dan, whose hammers have threatened and rung loudly...

“Folk var hensynsløsere nu end i Fortiden, hvor man hødede meget og larmede livsfarligt en Ugestid, uden Blodsudgydelse, nu stak man tiende og paa Stedet, havde gjort Knivene lange.”

People were more reckless now than in the past, when they threatened a lot and made a dangerous noise a week, without shed of blood, now they stabbed silently and immediately, they had made the knives longer.

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