Auð-vinr
Old Norse Dictionary - auð-vinr
Meaning of Old Norse word "auð-vinr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word auð-vinr can mean:auð-vinr
- auð-vinr
- m. (poët.) a charitable friend [A. S. eâðvine] ; in the old poets freq. spelt otvin, v. Lex. poët.
- auð-vinr
- β. as a pr. name Auðunn; the etymology in Hkr. i. 12 is bad; and so is also the popular etymology of this word = none, fr. auðr, vacuus.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛅᚢᚦ-ᚢᛁᚾᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- m.
- masculine.
- poët.
- poetically.
- S.
- Saga.
- v.
- vide.
- pr.
- proper, properly.
Works & Authors cited:
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Hkr.
- Heimskringla. (E. I.)