Gildir
Old Norse Dictionary - gildir
Meaning of Old Norse word "gildir"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- gildir
- m., in poetry a payer, contributor, Lex. poët.: a feaster, poët. the wolf that feasts in blood: a guild-brother, öld Ólafs gilda (gen. pl.), the host of St. Olave’s guild-brothers, Geisli 10; Hropts gildar, the champions of Odin, Hd.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᛁᛚᛏᛁᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- gen.
- genitive.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- pl.
- plural.
- poët.
- poetically.
Works & Authors cited:
- Hd.
- Hús-drápa. (A. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.