Definitionen
Definitionen
1 vell
n. [vella], gold, prop. molten, i. e. native, gold, or = Germ. ‘ge-diegenes gold,’ (perh. the word comes from the superstition as to serpents brooding and hatching gold, cp. fóru þeir til bælis drekans, ok sá þeir þar mikit gull, ok ‘heitt sem nýrunnit í afli,’ Ingv. 24.) The word is only used in poets, and in the compds, vell-auðigr, vell-ríkr, q. v.: poët. compds, vell-bjóðr, -broti, -meiðir, -rýrir, -stærir, -vönuðr, all epithets of a princely man.
Runeninschrift
Runeninschrift
vell
Der obige Runentext stellt das altnordische Wort "vell" dar, wie es in Runeninschriften aus der Wikingerzeit (ca. 800-1100 n. Chr.) erscheinen könnte.