Definitionen
Definitionen
1 strá-dauða
adj. [Dan. straa-död], ‘straw-dead,’ dying a natural death, from the corpse being stretched on straw, see strá (above), Korm. (in a verse); in the old heathen times an inglorious death, opp. to vápndauðr, cp. þat óttuðumk ek um hríð, er friðr þessi inn mikli var, at ek munda verða elli-dauðr inni á pall-strám mínum, Hkr. i. 149.
Runeninschrift
Runeninschrift
strá-dauða
Der obige Runentext stellt das altnordische Wort "strá-dauða" dar, wie es in Runeninschriften aus der Wikingerzeit (ca. 800-1100 n. Chr.) erscheinen könnte.