Fálka-veiðr

Betydelsen av det fornnordiska ordet "fálka-veiðr"

Enligt Cleasby & Vigfussons fornnordisk-engelska ordbok:

fálka-veiðr

f. catching falcons, Bs. i. 720, 737. This foreign word came into use as a trade term, and only occurs in the 13th century. The white falcon (‘falco Islandicus’) was during the Middle Ages much sought for, and sometimes the king or bishops claimed the exclusive right of exporting these birds: they were sent to England even as late as A. D. 1602, and sought for by English noblemen of that time; cp. the anecdote told in Feðga-æfi 10.

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Yngre futhark-runor användes från 800- till 1200-talet i Skandinavien och deras utländska bosättningar