Definitions
Definitions
1 ný-görfing ný-gǫrfing
f. a novelty, innovation, Ann. 1347, Fs. 76.
2 ný-görfing ný-gǫrfing
2. a gramm. term, a new trope or figure of speech, esp. of poët. circumlocutions not founded on ancient usage or old mythol. tales, but drawn from the imagination of the poet; thus, calling the tears the ‘rain, shower, pearls of the eyes’ would be ‘nýgörving,’ as also calling the sword a ‘snake,’ the sheath its ‘slough,’ Edda (Ht.) 123; skjöldr er land vápnanna, en vápn er hagl eða regn þess lands ef nygörfingum er ort, Edda 90.
3 ný-görfing ný-gǫrfing
II. mod. in a bad sense, whence ný-görfingr, m. of a person, an innovator, Pál Vídal. Skyr. passim; of a thing, new-fangledness, novelty, nýgörfings-ligr, adj. new-fangled.
Orthography
Orthography
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Runic Inscription
Runic Inscription
ný-görfing
The runic text above represents the Old Norse word "ný-görfing" as it might appear in runic inscriptions from the Viking Age (c. 800-1100 CE).