Ballr
Old Norse Dictionary - ballr
Meaning of Old Norse word "ballr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- ballr
- adj. [Goth. balþs, audax, may be supposed from Jornandes, ob audaciam virtutis baltha, id est audax, nomen inter suos acceperat, 109; Ulf. renders παρρησία by balþis, f., and balþjan is audere; in Icel. the lþ (lth) becomes ll; A. S. beald, audax; Engl. bold]:—bard, stubborn: only used in poetry, and not in quite a good sense, as an epithet of a giant, Hým. 17; böll ráð, telling, fatal schemes, Hom. 27 ; ballir draumar, bad, deadly dreams, Vtkv. I; ballr dólgr, Haustl.; böll þrá, heavy grief, LS. 39, etc., vide Lex. Poët. [So old German names, Bald, Leo-pold, etc.]
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛒᛅᛚᛚᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- adj.
- adjective.
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- Engl.
- English.
- etc.
- et cetera.
- f.
- feminine.
- gl.
- glossary.
- Goth.
- Gothic.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- S.
- Saga.
- Ulf.
- Ulfilas.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Haustl.
- Haustlöng. (A. I.)
- Hom.
- Homiliu-bók. (F. II.)
- Hým.
- Hýmis-kviða. (A. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Ls.
- Loka-senna. (A. I.)
- Vtkv.
- Vegtams-kviða. (A. I.)