Altnordischer Wörterbucheintrag

Vestan

Altnordischer Wörterbucheintrag

Definitionen

3 Definitionen

1 vestan

adv. from the west; vestr eða vestan, Ld. 126; vestan ór Fjörðum, Nj. 14, passim: the phrase, vestan um haf, ‘from west over the sea,’ i. e. from the Western Islands, a special phrase for the British Isles across the North Sea, Fms. i. 26: or simply vestan, at hann var vestan kominn, viz. from Britain, Eg. 74; even used of a voyage from thence to Iceland, Ráðólfr ok Jólfgeir bræðr kómu vestan um haf til Íslands, Landn. 298.

2 vestan

2. of position without motion; fyrir vestan (with acc.), on the western side of; fyrir vestan vötnin, Nj. 196; fyrir vestan Heinabergs-sand Sóta nes, 158, Fms. i. 60, Landn. 194, passim; út um Álptafjörð fyrir vestan, in the west, Nj. 215.

3 vestan

COMPDS: vestanbæjar, vestanferð, vestanfjarðar, vestanlands, vestanmaðr, vestanveðr, vestanverðr, vestanvindr.

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Runeninschrift

vestan

Mögliche Runeninschrift in jüngerem Futhark

Der obige Runentext stellt das altnordische Wort "vestan" dar, wie es in Runeninschriften aus der Wikingerzeit (ca. 800-1100 n. Chr.) erscheinen könnte.

Verwendete Abkürzungen

Häufige Abkürzungen

acc.: accusative.
adv: adverb.
adv.: adverb.
i. e.: id est.
Icel: Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
id: idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
n.: neuter.
v.: vide, verb.
viz: videlicet.
viz.: videlicet.

Werke & Autoren

Eg.: Egils Saga. (D. II.)
Fms.: Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
Landn.: Landnáma. (D. I.)
Ld.: Laxdæla Saga. (D. II.)
Nj.: Njála. (D. II.)

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