Viki-vaki

Old Norse Dictionary Entry

Viki-vaki

Old Norse Dictionary Entry

Definitions

1 viki-vaki

a, m. [this word, which hardly occurs in old writers, seems in the 15th century to have been adopted]:—a weekly wake, popular festival meetings and entertainments on Sunday evenings, with song and dance; förum vér til vikivaka | værðir þar og hvíld að taka, Eggert; songs and ballads sung at such weekly wakes were called either vikivaka-kvæði or forn-kvæði, q. v.

Runic Inscription

ᚢᛁᚴᛁ-ᚢᛅᚴᛁ

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark

Abbreviations Used

Common Abbreviations

ch
chapter.
m.
masculine.
q. v.
quod vide.
v.
vide, verb.

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