Definitions
Definitions
1 METTA
að, [matr], to fill with food; Jesus mettar fjórar þúsundir manna, Icel. Almanack for the 7th Sunday after Trinity, and passim in mod. usage: reflex. mettask, to eat one’s fill.
2 METTA
II. in old writers chiefly in the part. mettr, having eaten one’s fill; having done; þveginn ok m., Hm. 60; ok er Egill var m., Eg. 566; þá var Flosi m., ok af borit af borðinu, Nj. 176; görðu þeir þá eld ok matbjuggu, en er þeir vóru mettir, Fms. i. 9, 209, ix. 353, Glúm. 357, Fs. 105, Eb. 20; en þeir neyttu ok urðu mettir, Mark viii. 8.
Runic Inscription
Runic Inscription
METTA
The runic text above represents the Old Norse word "METTA" as it might appear in runic inscriptions from the Viking Age (c. 800-1100 CE).