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Admiral-fivreld Vanessa atalanta

Fivreldar (engelsk butterflies, fornorn fífrildi) eru vingd skorkvikk (winged insects) sen tilhøra huben (Lepidoptera). Dir hava fyre sturar vinger, antenner og en lång trånt (trunk). Dað finnast øver 170.000 kyn (species) av fivreldon i hemenon (the world); dir kennast å utliti vinganna (the wing patterns).

En hjetlendsk fivreld er kelfloga (cabbage butterfly - Pieris brassicae).

Kelder (Sources)

Vigfusson: Icelandic Dictionary

FÍFRILDI, mod. fiðrildi through a false etymology, as if it were from fidri,
[O.H.G. viveltre; A.S. fifalde; prov'mc. Germ. feifalter ; Swed. fjäril; Norse fivreld or
fibrelde; Lat. pāpilio]:—a butterfly, Flor. 18.