Þulr

Significado de la palabra en nórdico antiguo "þulr"

Según el diccionario inglés de nórdico antiguo de Cleasby & Vigfusson:

þulr

m., gen. þular, dat. þul, a sayer of saws, a wife-man, a sage (a bard?); this interesting word, the exact technical meaning of which is not known, occurs on a Danish Runic stone—Hruhalds þular á Salhaugum, Thorsen 17: and in old poems, at hárum þul hlæ þú aldregi, opt er gott þat er gamlir kveða, Hm. 135; inn hára þul, Fm. 34; nú skal freista hvárr fleira viti, gestr eða inn gamli þulr, Vþm. 9. þular-stóll, m. ‘the bard’s-seat,’ in which he sat when speaking; mál er at þylja þular-stóli at, Hm. 111; fimbul-þulr, the great wise man, 143; kross hangir fyrir brjósti þul (poet) þessum, Orkn. (in a verse).

Posible inscripción rúnica en futhark joven:ᚦᚢᛚᚱ
Las runas del futhark joven se utilizaron desde el siglo VIII hasta el XII en Escandinavia y sus asentamientos en el extranjero