# blót
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Norse blót.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bloʊt/
* Rhymes: -əʊt
* Homophone: bloat

### Noun

blót (plural blóts)
* A Norse (and modern Heathen) ceremonial offering.
** 2001, John Lindow, Handbook of Norse Mythology, ABC-CLIO, page 35:These show us the importance of verbal activity at a blót, specifically verbal activity aimed at producing a result, presumably by means of intervention by the deities.
** 2005, Galina Krasskova, Exploring the Northern Tradition: A Guide to the Gods, Lore, Rites, and Celebrations from the Norse, German, and Anglo-Saxon Traditions, Career Press, page 151:In the past, before Christianity spread across Europe, the average blót would generally have involved some sort of animal sacrifice.
** 2006, Anders Andrén, Kristina Jennbert, Catharina Raudvere, Old Norse Religion in Long-term Perspectives: Origins, Changes, and Interactions : an International Conference in Lund, Sweden, June 3-7, 2004, Nordic Academic Press, page 75:He soon comes back to land, makes a largely undescribed blót sacrifice to Óðinn, and receives confirmation of his god's approval in the flight of two cawing ravens.
** 2009, The Ásatrú Edda: Sacred Lore of the North, The Norroena Society, page 5
    Do you know how to blót? / Do you know how to slaughter?

### Anagrams

* Tbol, bolt, Bolt, TBol

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *blōtą (“offering, sacrifice”). Cognate with Old English blōt and the first part of Old High German bluozhūs (“heathen temple”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlād- (“to offer, sacrifice”).

### Pronunciation

* (12th century Icelandic) IPA: /ˈbloːt/

### Noun

blót n (genitive blóts, plural blót)
* (Germanic paganism, especially in the plural) offering
** Kristni saga 11, in 1858, J. Sigurðsson, G. Vigfússon, Biskupa sögur, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 20:
    […] fyri norðan, þar voru áðr blót ok hörgar.
    […] to the north, there were up to now offerings and personal shrines.
* (Germanic paganism) sharing of food of an offering in a ceremony, feast
** Separate Saga of St. Olaf 96, in 1853, P. A. Munch, C. R. Unger, Saga Olafs konungs ens Helga. Copenhagen, page 104:
    En þat er siðr þeirra at hafa blot a havst oc fagna þa vetri, […]
    But it is a custom for them to have a feast at fall and celebrate the winter, […]
* (Germanic paganism) offering site, a place to make offerings
** Borgarthings-Christenret 24, in 1846, E. Hertzberg, Norges gamle love indtil 1387, Volume I. Christiania, page 383:
    Engi maðr ſkal hafa i huſi ſinu ſtaf eða ſtalla, vit eða blot, […]
    No man shall have in his house a staff or an altar, a charm or an offering site, […]
* cursing, an offering for the purpose of seeking vengeance against an other
** Sturlunga saga, chapter IV, 50, in 1817, Þ. E. Rangel, Sturlunga-Saga edr Íslendínga-Saga hin mikla, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 101:
    […] snéri hann til dura ok sá fimm menn úti, heyrdi hann þá blot, […]
    […] he turned to the doors and saw there five men, and then heard cursing, […]

#### Derived terms

* blótan (“sacrificing”)
* blótauðigr (“rich in sacrifice”)
* blótbað (“sacrificial bath”)
* blótbiskup (“heathen priest”)
* blótbolli (“sacrificial bowl”)
* blótdrykkja (“sacrificial feast”)
* blótdómr (“idolatry”)
* blótfé (“sacred goods”)
* blótgoði (“heathen priest”)
* blótgrǫf (“sacrificial den”)
* blótguð (“heathen god”)
* blótgyðja (“heathen priestess”)
* blóthaugr (“sacrificial mound”)
* blóthof (“heathen temple”)
* blóthús (“heathen house of worship”)
* blóthǫrgr (“sacrificial altar”)
* blótkalfr (“the golden calf”)
* blótkelda (“sacrificial fen”)
* blótklæði (“sacrificial garments”)
* blótkona (“idolatress”)
* blótlundr (“sacred grove”)
* blótmatr (“food eaten at sacrificial feast”)
* blótmaðr (“idolater”)
* blótnaut (“sacrificial ox”)
* blótnaðr (“idolatry”)
* blótprestr (“heathen priest”)
* blótrisi (“giant worshipped as an idol”)
* blótskapr (“heathenry, idolatry”)
* blótskógr (“sacred forest”)
* blótspánn (“chip used in divination”)
* blótstallr (“sacrificial altar”)
* blótstaðr (“place of sacrifice”)
* blóttrygill (“sacrificial trough”)
* blóttré (“sacred tree”)
* blótveizla (“sacrificial feats”)
* blótvilla (“heathen heresy”)
* blótviðr (“sacred wood”)
* blótvǫllr (“sacrificial field”)
* goðablót (“sacrifice to the gods”)

#### Related terms

* blóta (“to worship”)
* blóthús (“heathen temple, sacrificial hut”)
* blǿti (“idol”)

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: blót
* → Faroese: blót
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: blót
* Old Swedish: blot
** Swedish: blot
* Old Gutnish: blót
* → Danish: blot

### Further reading

* Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “blót”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 70
* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “blót”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 60; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857
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