Definitions
Definitions
1 mis-för mis-fǫr
f., esp. in pl. mishaps, a miscarriage, accident, Bs. i. 200, Karl. 52, Fær. 194: in Grág. i. 224 misfarar is used of a crew perishing one after another, a case analogous to that told in Ld. ch. 18, and bearing on the old law of inheritance, by which all persons aboard a ship were one another’s heirs; so that it was important to know in what order they died, and who had been the last survivor, cp. kjolsvarf in the early Swed. law: the phrase, fara misförum, to have miscarried.
Orthography
Orthography
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Runic Inscription
Runic Inscription
mis-för
The runic text above represents the Old Norse word "mis-för" as it might appear in runic inscriptions from the Viking Age (c. 800-1100 CE).