Grunnungr
Old Norse Dictionary - grunnungr
Meaning of Old Norse word "grunnungr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- grunnungr
- m. [Germ. gründling; Ivar Aasen grunnung; from grunnr]:—a groundling, a fish that lives in shoal water, Edda (Gl.); in mod. usage called þara-fiskr.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᚱᚢᚾᚾᚢᚾᚴᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- Germ.
- German.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- mod.
- modern.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.