For-sprakari
Old Norse Dictionary - for-sprakari
Meaning of Old Norse word "for-sprakari"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- for-sprakari
- a, m. [for. word; Germ. sprechen], a ‘for-speaker’ spokesman, Sti. 266; hence the mod. for-sprakki, a, m. a ringleader.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚠᚢᚱ-ᛋᛒᚱᛅᚴᛅᚱᛁ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- for.
- foreign.
- Germ.
- German.
- m.
- masculine.
- mod.
- modern.