Geir-fálki
Old Norse Dictionary - geir-fálki
Meaning of Old Norse word "geir-fálki"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- geir-fálki
- a, m. [a for. word; mid. Lat. gyrfalco], a gerfalcon, H. E. i. 391, N. G. L. ii. 471.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᛁᛁᚱ-ᚠᛅᛚᚴᛁ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- for.
- foreign.
- id.
- idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
- L.
- Linnæus.
- Lat.
- Latin.
- m.
- masculine.
- mid. Lat.
- middle Latin.
Works & Authors cited:
- H. E.
- Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiae. (J. I.)
- N. G. L.
- Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)