Fjarg-vefjask
Old Norse Dictionary - fjarg-vefjask
Meaning of Old Norse word "fjarg-vefjask"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- fjarg-vefjask
- dep. to groan and lament, Bjarn. 69 (in a verse), (MS. fiargvefiar, r = z = sk; the explanation given in Lex. Poët. cannot be right. LS. 19 is corrupt, so that there is no evidence for the word fjörg = gods.)
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚠᛁᛅᚱᚴ-ᚢᛁᚠᛁᛅᛋᚴ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- dep.
- deponent.
- n.
- neuter.
- S.
- Saga.
Works & Authors cited:
- Bjarn.
- Bjarnar Saga. (D. II.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Ls.
- Loka-senna. (A. I.)