Fitja

Meaning of Old Norse word "fitja"

As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:

Old Norse word fitja can mean:fitja

fitja

að, [cp. A. S. fettan, Engl. to fit], to web, knit; hann lét fitja saman fingrna, he webbed the fingers together, like the foot of a duck or seal, in order to swim better, Grett. 148.

fitja

β. fitja upp sokk, etc., to ‘cast on’ a sock or the like, i. e. make the first stitches in knitting it: metaph., fitja upp á nef sér, to knit or screw up the nose in anger, Dan. ‘slaa kröller paa næsen;’ so in Engl. ‘to knit the browS.’

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚠᛁᛏᛁᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements