Eyktar-staðr
Old Norse Dictionary - eyktar-staðr
Meaning of Old Norse word "eyktar-staðr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- eyktar-staðr
- m. the place of the sun at half-past three P. m.; meira var þar jafndægri en á Grænlandi eðr Íslandi, sól hafði þar eyktar-stað ok dagmála-stað um skamdegi, Fb. i. 539,—this passage refers to the discovery of America; but in A. A. l. c. it is wrongly explained as denoting the shortest day nine hours long, instead of seven; it follows that the latitude fixed by the editors of A. A. is too far to the south; frá jafndægri er haust til þess er sól setzk í eykðarstað, þá er vetr til jafndægris, Edda 103.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛁᚢᚴᛏᛅᚱ-ᛋᛏᛅᚦᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- l.
- line.
- l. c.
- loco citato.
- m.
- masculine.
Works & Authors cited:
- A. A.
- Antiquitates Americanae. (E. II.)
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Fb.
- Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)