Horfin-heilla

Old Norse Dictionary Entry

Old Norse Dictionary Entry

Definitions

1. u, f. loss of luck; h. er mér, luck has left me, Fs. 98; kvaðsk þeim h. at þykkja, Fms. vii. 272.

2. perh. better n., cp. Eirsp. 141 (Ed. 1870), where horfin-heilla occurs as acc.

ᚼᚢᚱᚠᛁᚾ-ᚼᛁᛁᛚᛚᛅ

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark

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