Fyrir-verða
Old Norse Dictionary - fyrir-verða
Meaning of Old Norse word "fyrir-verða"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- fyrir-verða
- varð, to vanish, collapse; þá féll ok fyrirvarð allt sem mold, 656 A. 2. 5, Sl. 27; svá sem augu firverða sem eigi taka læknis lyf, 656 B. 12:—so also, fyrirverða sik, to be destroyed, Stj. 25; also to be ashamed, Clem. 34, freq. in mod. usage in this last sense, otherwise obsolete:—and reflex. to perish, collapse, Stj. 91, 118, 149, Str. 66.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚠᚢᚱᛁᚱ-ᚢᛁᚱᚦᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- mod.
- modern.
- reflex.
- retlexive.
Works & Authors cited:
- Clem.
- Clements Saga. (F. III.)
- Sl.
- Sólarljóð. (A. III.)
- Stj.
- Stjórn. (F. I.)
- Str.
- Strengleikar. (G. II.)