Bjarnar-slátr
Old Norse Dictionary - bjarnar-slátr
Meaning of Old Norse word "bjarnar-slátr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- bjarnar-slátr
- n. meat of a slaughtered bear, Fas. i. 54: botan., Ivar Aasen records bjonnabær, rubus caesius; bjonnakamb, osmunda spicans; bjonnmosa, polytrichum commune. For popular tales of the bear vide Ísl. Þjóðs. i. 608–611.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛒᛁᛅᚱᚾᛅᚱ-ᛋᛚᛅᛏᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- botan.
- botanically.
- l.
- line.
- n.
- neuter.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fas.
- Fornaldar Sögur. (C. II.)
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.
- Ísl. Þjóðs.
- Íslenzkar Þjóðsögur.