Gnap
Old Norse Dictionary - gnap
Meaning of Old Norse word "gnap"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- gnap
- n., poët. high places, the high sea, Edda (Gl.): in poët. compds, gnap-hjarl, -salr, -stóll, -turn, Lex. poët.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᚾᛅᛒ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- l.
- line.
- n.
- neuter.
- poët.
- poetically.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.