Beit
Old Norse Dictionary - beit
Meaning of Old Norse word "beit"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word beit can mean:beit
- beit
- 1. n.
- beit
- I. pasturage, Grág. ii. 224, 263, 286; á beit, grazing: [in England the rector of a parish is said to have ‘the bite’ of the churchyard.]
- beit
- COMPDS: beitarland, beitarmaðr, beitartollr.
- beit
- II. poët. a ship, Lex. poët.
- beit
- 2. f. a plate of metal mounted on the brim, e. g. of a drinking horn, the carved metal plate on an old-fashioned saddle, Fms. iii. 190; skálir með gyltum beitum, B. K. 84, Bs. ii. 244; cp. Caes. Bell. Gall. 6. 28 (Germani urorum cornua) a labris argento circumcludunt.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛒᛁᛁᛏ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- n.
- neuter.
- poët.
- poetically.
- cp.
- compare.
- e. g.
- exempli gratia.
- f.
- feminine.
- l.
- line.
Works & Authors cited:
- Grág.
- Grágás. (B. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- B. K.
- Björgynjar Kálfskinn. (J. II.)
- Bs.
- Biskupa Sögur. (D. III.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)