Kol-fella
Fornnordisk Ordbok - kol-fella
Betydelsen av det fornnordiska ordet "kol-fella"
Enligt Cleasby & Vigfussons fornnordisk-engelska ordbok:
- kol-fella
- d, (and kol-fellir, m.), to lose utterly, of a man who loses all his live stock from cold or hunger; hann kolfeldi, he lost his all; það varð kolfellir: it may be a metaph. from cutting wood for charcoal; or perhaps a remnant of an ancient Scandin. law term, preserved in early Swed., viz. kull-svarf = the death of mother and child in childbirth, and kjöl-svarf = of husband, wife, and child, all perishing at sea, see Schlyter. cp. Ld. ch. 18.
Möjlig runinskrift i yngre futhark:ᚴᚢᛚ-ᚠᛁᛚᛚᛅ
Yngre futhark-runor användes från 800- till 1200-talet i Skandinavien och deras utländska bosättningar
Förkortningar som används:
- ch.
- chapter.
- cp.
- compare.
- m.
- masculine.
- metaph.
- metaphorical, metaphorically.
- n.
- neuter.
- Scandin.
- Scandinavia, Scandinavian.
- Swed.
- Swedish.
- viz.
- namely.
Verk & författare citerade:
- Ld.
- Laxdæla Saga. (D. II.)