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− | [[File:Beaver pho34.jpg|thumb|300px|'''Evroasiatisk bjever''' ''Castor fiber'']]
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− | '''Bjever''' or '''bjur''' ([[engelskt mål|engelsk]] ''beaver'', [[fornnornt mål|fornnorn]] ''bjórr'' or ''bifra'') (froðlikshed: ''Castoridae'') er stursta hnagdjur (''rodent'') å norderu vrildarhålvu (''hemisphere''). Tver undererter eru, ''Castor canadensis'' og ''Castor fiber''. Fyrstnemda hører hema i [[Amerika|Ameriku]] og siðstnemnda hører hema i [[Evropa|Evropu]]. Bjeveren er nåttvirken (''nocturnal'') og liver i åon og vatnon (''rivers and lakes''), dar hann bygger stivler (''dams'') og vister (''lodges''), og graver vedeker (''canals''). Bjuren, or skinnið, ger bjeveren til velumtukt veðidjur (''popular hunt/game'').
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− | [[File:Castor canadensis.jpg|thumb|300px|'''Amerikansk bjever''' ''Castor canadensis'']]
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− | [[File:BeaverSwimming.JPG|left|thumb|300px|Sumandi bjever i [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Wildlife_Park Highland Wildlife Park] i [[Skotland]]i]]
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− | [[File:Beaverlodge.JPG|left|thumb|300px|Bjevervist (''beaver lodge'') i [[Kanada]]]]
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− | ===Kelder (Sources)===
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− | Vigfusson: ''Icelandic Dictionary
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− | '''''BJÓRR''', m. [Lat. fiber ; A. S. beofar], a beaver, esp. the beaver's skin.<br>
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− | Eg. 71, in the phrase, b. ok savali. 2. a triangular cut off piece of<br>
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− | skin, [cp. provincial Swed. bjaur^ ; 'þat eru bjórar þeir er menn sníða<br>
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− | ór skóm sínum fyrir tám eðr hæl, Edda 42 ; still used in Icel. in that<br>
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− | sense.''
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− | '''''bifra''', u, f. [A. S. beber, befer'], a beaver (?), a cognom., Fms.''
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− | [[Category:Djur]]
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− | [[Category:Spinudjur]]
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− | [[Category:Villt djur]]
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