Dreng-maðr
Old Norse Dictionary - dreng-maðr
Meaning of Old Norse word "dreng-maðr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- dreng-maðr
- m. a bachelor, opp. to bóndi, N. G. L. i. 31, 98: a stout doughty man, Lex. Poët.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛏᚱᛁᚾᚴ-ᛘᛅᚦᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- L.
- Linnæus.
- m.
- masculine.
- opp.
- opposed.
Works & Authors cited:
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- N. G. L.
- Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)