Definiciones
Definiciones
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.
Inscripción rúnica
Inscripción rúnica
vestan
El texto rúnico anterior representa la palabra nórdica antigua "vestan" como podría aparecer en inscripciones rúnicas de la Era Vikinga (c. 800-1100 d.C.).