Af-hending
Old Norse Dictionary - af-hending
Meaning of Old Norse word "af-hending"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- af-hending
- f. a metrical term, a subdivision of the samhenda, when the final assonance of a verse is repeated in the next one, e. g. seim þverrir gefr seima | seim örr …, Edda (Ht. 47 and 24). In mod. Icel. metric, afhenda is quite different, viz. a short metre in only two lines.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛅᚠ-ᚼᛁᚾᛏᛁᚾᚴ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- e. g.
- exempli gratia.
- f.
- feminine.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- l.
- line.
- mod.
- modern.
- viz.
- namely.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Ht.
- Hátta-tal. (C. I.)