Svað

Bedeutung des altnordischen Wortes "svað"

Wie im Cleasby & Vigfusson Altnordisch-Englisch Wörterbuch definiert:

svað

n. and svaði, a, m. [sveðja], a slippery place, a slide, as of frozen ground with a half-thawed muddy surface; þá var þeyr, var svað (svaði, Fb. l. c.) á þelanum, Fms. viii. 393; svað (svaði C) var á vellinum, ok skriðnaði hann, Sturl. ii. 104; hestrinn skriðnaði á svadanum, iii. 141: metaph. phrase, var við svað um, at mart manna mundi drukna, it was on the slide, was imminent, that many people should be drowned, Mork. 92. In mod. usage svaði is chiefly used of slippery ledges of rock projecting into the sea, and washed by the tides.

Mögliche Runeninschrift im Jüngeren Futhark:ᛋᚢᛅᚦ
Jüngere Futhark-Runen wurden vom 8. bis 12. Jahrhundert in Skandinavien und ihren überseeischen Siedlungen verwendet