BURR

Old Norse Dictionary Entry

BURR

Old Norse Dictionary Entry

Definitions

1 BURR

m., gen. ar, pl. ir, a son, akin to bera and barn, but poët., being used in prose only in allit. phrases such as, eigi buri við bónda sínum, Stj. 428; sem burr eðr bróðir, Fms. xi. 75; áttu börn og buru (acc. pl.) grófu rætr og muru is a standing peroration of Icel. nursery tales, Ísl. Þjóðs. ii. 319, vide Lex. Poët.: else in prose only used in the weak form in the compd words tví-buri, twins; þrí-buri, three at a birth, (in modern statistics even fleir-buri.)

Runic Inscription

ᛒᚢᚱᚱ

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark

Abbreviations Used

Common Abbreviations

acc.: accusative.
allit.: alliteration, alliterative.
ch: chapter.
gen.: genitive.
Icel: Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
Icel.: Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
id: idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
l.: Linnæus.
lit: literally.
lit.: literally.
m.: masculine.
mod: modern.
n.: neuter.
pl.: plural.
poët.: poetical, poetically.

Works & Authors

Fms.: Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
Ísl. Þjóðs.: Íslenzkar Þjóðsögur.
Lex. Poët.: Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
Stj.: Stjórn. (F. I.)

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