Gor-vargr
Old Norse Dictionary - gor-vargr
Meaning of Old Norse word "gor-vargr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- gor-vargr
- m. a law term, [early Dan. and Swed. gornithing; Ivar Aasen gortjuv], a ‘gore-worrier,’ one who feloniously destroys another man’s cattle, liable to outlawry, defined in n. G. L. ii. 523.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᚢᚱ-ᚢᛅᚱᚴᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- Dan.
- Danish.
- L.
- Linnæus.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- Swed.
- Swedish.
Works & Authors cited:
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.
- N. G. L.
- Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)