Frumsar-brauð
Old Norse Dictionary - frumsar-brauð
Meaning of Old Norse word "frumsar-brauð"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- frumsar-brauð
- n. bread of the first-fruits, Stj. 615. 2 Kings iv. 42: frums- or frumsa- is in Icel. and in Norse popular tales esp. used of animals that are first-born through two or more generations; such animals are thought to have a wonder-power, cp. Ivar Aasen; hence
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚠᚱᚢᛘᛋᛅᚱ-ᛒᚱᛅᚢᚦ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- cp.
- compare.
- esp.
- especially.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- l.
- line.
- n.
- neuter.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.
- Stj.
- Stjórn. (F. I.)