Búfjár-hagar
Old Norse Dictionary - búfjár-hagar
Meaning of Old Norse word "búfjár-hagar"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- búfjár-hagar
- m. pl. the pasture fields on an estate, esp. the home-pastures or closes, used daily for the home cattle, and opp. to afréttr, q. v.: hence the phrase in Nj., ríða upp ór b., denoting a pale of about three or four miles, 34; í b., within the pale of the b., Glúm. 355. Eb. 54.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛒᚢᚠᛁᛅᚱ-ᚼᛅᚴᛅᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- esp.
- especially.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- opp.
- opposed.
- pl.
- plural.
- q. v.
- quod vide.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Eb.
- Eyrbyggja Saga. (D. II.)
- Glúm.
- Víga-Glúms Saga. (D. II.)
- Nj.
- Njála. (D. II.)