Tafn
Altnordisches Wörterbuch - tafn
Bedeutung des altnordischen Wortes "tafn"
Wie im Cleasby & Vigfusson Altnordisch-Englisch Wörterbuch definiert:
Das altnordische Wort tafn kann bedeuten:tafn
- tafn
- n. [cp. Lat. daps; Gr. δαπάνη; the Greek word is analogous to sóa, which means to sacrifice and then to waste]:—a sacrifice, = Lat. victima, hostia, but only in a heathen sense, and obsolete; heilagt tafn, the holy sacrifice, Hd.; Gauts tafn, the victims of Odin, i. e. the slain, who in the heathen creed were an offering to Odin, the god of victory, Landn. (in a verse).
- tafn
- 2. a bloody prey, poët.; tafn fékksk hrafni, tafns leitandi hrafnar, hrafn fagnaði tafni, hrafn á ylgjar tafni, bola tafn und kló hrafni, Lex. poët. (in all these references ‘tafn’ is used by the poets to rhyme to hrafn); val-tafn, id.; gefa ærit tafn hrafni ok vargi, Karl. 152: in old eccl. writers, sæfa töfn, Stj. 348; tafn Guðs, 310 (victima Domini, Vulgate); fórn ok töfn, 655 xxiii. 1; fórnir ok töfn, id.
Mögliche Runeninschrift im Jüngeren Futhark:ᛏᛅᚠᚾ
Jüngere Futhark-Runen wurden vom 8. bis 12. Jahrhundert in Skandinavien und ihren überseeischen Siedlungen verwendet
Verwendete Abkürzungen:
- cp.
- compare.
- Gr.
- Greek.
- i. e.
- id est.
- Lat.
- Latin.
- n.
- neuter.
- eccl.
- ecclesiastical.
- id.
- idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
- l.
- line.
- poët.
- poetically.
Zitierte Werke & Autoren:
- Hd.
- Hús-drápa. (A. I.)
- Landn.
- Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Karl.
- Karla-magnús Saga. (G. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Stj.
- Stjórn. (F. I.)