Möttull

Significato della parola Old Norse "möttull" (o mǫttull)

Come definito dal dizionario Old Norse to English di Cleasby & Vigfusson:

La parola Old Norse möttull può significare:möttull

möttull (mǫttull)

m., dat. möttli; [no doubt from Lat. mantile, = a hand-towel or napkin; whence the word came into the Romance languages, Ital. mantello; Span. mantilla; Fr. manteau; Engl. mantle; thence into the Teutonic, O. H. G. mantal]:—a mantle; occurring as early as in Kormak, but not used elsewhere by old poets, although freq. in the Sagas, Fms. i. 211, ii. 280, xi. 275, Fs. 60, Nj. 28, Fb. i. 20, ii. 131, Fær. 264, 266; the möttull was worn by both men and women; skikkja, which is the genuine Norse word, seems to be synonymous with möttull; thus skikkja, Fagrsk. 115 (line 25), is called möttull, 117 (line 24): the möttull was prob. a short light mantle, fastened by strings (tuglar) round the neck, whence it was called tugla-möttull, Fb. ii. 130, Fær. 263, or möttull á tuglum, and it seems usually to have been of foreign cut and of costly foreign stuff (a purple mantle is mentioned in Fagrsk. l. c.)

möttull (mǫttull)

II. as a pr. name of a Finnish king, Fb. iii.

Ortografia: Il libro di Cleasby & Vigfusson ha usato la lettera ö per rappresentare la vocale originale ǫ dell'antico norreno. Pertanto, möttull potrebbe essere scritto in modo più accurato come mǫttull.

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