Aurr
Old Norse Dictionary - aurr
Meaning of Old Norse word "aurr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- aurr
- s, m., prop. wet clay or loam, but also in Eggert Itin. p. 682 of a sort of clay, cp. Ivar Aasen S. v. aur. In A. S. eâr is humus; in the Alvismál one of the names of the earth is aurr (kalla aur uppregin). In the Völuspá the purling water of the well of Urda is called aurr; hence the paraphrase in the Edda, þær taka hvern dag vatn í brunninum, ok með aurinn (the clay, humus) er liggr um brunninn, ok ausa upp yfir askinn. Elsewhere used simply of mud, wet soil, aurr etr iljar en ofan kuldi, GS. 15; auri trödd und jóa fótum, Gh. 16; ok við aur ægir hjarna, bragnings burs of blandinn varð, his brains were mixed with the mud, Ýt. 16; aurr ok saurr, mud and dirt, Ann. 1362; hylja auri, humo condere, in a verse in the Konn. S.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛅᚢᚱᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- cp.
- compare.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- prop.
- proper, properly.
- S.
- Saga.
- s. v.
- sub voce.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Ann.
- Íslenzkir Annálar. (D. IV.)
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Gh.
- Guðrúnar-hefna. (A. II.)
- Gs.
- Grótta-söngr. (A. II.)
- Itin.
- Itinerarium or Travels of Eggert Ólafsson, 1772.
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.