And-svar
Old Norse Dictionary - and-svar
Meaning of Old Norse word "and-svar"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word and-svar can mean:and-svar
- and-svar
- and annsvar, n. [A. S. andsvaru; Hel. uses andvordi and andvordian = respondere; Ulf. andavaurd], an ‘answer,’ response, but in old writers esp. a decision; vera skjótr í andsvörum, prompt in deciding, FmS. i. 277; sagðist til hans hafa vikit um ansvarit, put the case under his decision, vi. 354; munu vit tala fleira áðr ek veita því andsvör, before I decide, Ld. 80; in n. G. l. i. 86 it seems to mean protest, intervention: used of the echo in Al. 35.
- and-svar
- COMPD: andsvaramaðr.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛅᚾᛏ-ᛋᚢᛅᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- esp.
- especially.
- f.
- feminine.
- Hel.
- Heliand.
- l.
- line.
- L.
- Linnæus.
- n.
- neuter.
- S.
- Saga.
- Ulf.
- Ulfilas.
Works & Authors cited:
- Al.
- Alexanders Saga. (G. I.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Ld.
- Laxdæla Saga. (D. II.)
- N. G. L.
- Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)