Borr
Old Norse Dictionary - borr
Meaning of Old Norse word "borr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word borr can mean:borr
- borr
- m. (com. bor-járn, n.), a borer; stórviðar-borr, skipa-borr, Od. ix. 384: metaph. the pipe of a marrow-bone, Eg. (in a verse).
- borr
- II. a less correct form of börr, q. v.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛒᚢᚱᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- m.
- masculine.
- metaph.
- metaphorical, metaphorically.
- n.
- neuter.
- q. v.
- quod vide.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Eg.
- Egils Saga. (D. II.)
- Od.
- Odysseifs-kvæði, prose, 1829.