Fjón
Old Norse Dictionary - fjón
Meaning of Old Norse word "fjón"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- fjón
- f. [fjá], hatred; an obsolete word, occurs in old prose in the phrase, reka e-n fjónum, to persecute, Ver. 29, Rb. 388; or else in poetry, leggja fjón á e-n, to hate one, Hallfred: in pl., konungs f., the king’s wrath, Ad. 11; vekja f., to stir up quarrels, Sl. 76, vide Lex. Poët.; guð-fjón, an abomination, that which drives the gods away, Fbr. (in a verse): mod. poets use a verb fjóna, að, to hate (Bjarn. 67, 122), probably misled by the corrupt passage in Sl. 27.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚠᛁᚢᚾ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- f.
- feminine.
- l.
- line.
- mod.
- modern.
- n.
- neuter.
- pl.
- plural.
Works & Authors cited:
- Ad.
- Arinbjarnar-drápa. (A. III.)
- Bjarn.
- Bjarnar Saga. (D. II.)
- Fbr.
- Fóstbræðra Saga. (D. II.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Rb.
- Rímbegla. (H. III.)
- Sl.
- Sólarljóð. (A. III.)
- Ver.
- Veraldar Saga. (E. II.)