Grjúpan
Old Norse Dictionary - grjúpan
Meaning of Old Norse word "grjúpan"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- grjúpan
- n. a sausage, Orkn. (in a verse), still in use in the east of Icel., [cp. grupa = to hatch or grind, Ivar Aasen.]
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᚱᛁᚢᛒᛅᚾ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- cp.
- compare.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- l.
- line.
- n.
- neuter.
Works & Authors cited:
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.
- Orkn.
- Orkneyinga Saga. (E. II.)