Fura
Old Norse Dictionary - fura
Meaning of Old Norse word "fura"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word fura can mean:fura
- fura
- u, f. [Engl. fir; Germ. föhre; mod. Norse furu; Dan. för]:—fir, Lat. pinus, Edda (gl.); fura vex, wide as the fir grows, Grág. ii. 170, Vkv. 9; ships were built of fir-timber, hence the allit. phrase, á fljótandi furu, on a floating fir, on hoard ship, Grág. i. 46: in poetry freq. = a ship, like Lat. abies, Lex. Poët.
- fura
- COMPDS: furukvistr, furustöng.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚠᚢᚱᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- allit.
- alliteration, alliterative.
- Dan.
- Danish.
- Engl.
- English.
- f.
- feminine.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- Germ.
- German.
- gl.
- glossary.
- l.
- line.
- Lat.
- Latin.
- lit.
- literally.
- m.
- masculine.
- mod.
- modern.
- n.
- neuter.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Grág.
- Grágás. (B. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Vkv.
- Völundar-kviða. (A. II.)