Definitions
Definitions
1 meldr
m., gen. meldrs and meldrar; [mala; Swed. mäld; Ivar Aascn mælder; Scot. melder; Mælder-skin, the name of a mountain glacier in Norway, from its likeness to a flour-bag]:—flour or corn in the mill: koma til melds, to go to the mill, Gs. 4; standa at meldri, 23; Fenju meldr, the flour of Fenja = gold, Lex. Poët.; græðis meldr, sea-flour = sand (?), Edda (in a verse); the word is obsolete and poët., but remains in Sweden and Norway.
Runic Inscription
Runic Inscription
meldr
The runic text above represents the Old Norse word "meldr" as it might appear in runic inscriptions from the Viking Age (c. 800-1100 CE).