Gýgr
Old Norse Dictionary - gýgr
Meaning of Old Norse word "gýgr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- gýgr
- m. an abyss; eld-gýgr, a crater of a volcano: to this perhaps belongs the saying, vinna fyrir gýg, to labour in vain, answering to the Lat. ‘oleum et operam perdere;’ hvað gagnar svo fyrir gýg ad vinna, Bb. 3. 98; og vann ei fyrir gýg, and got his reward, Snót 319 (Ed. 1866); or is gýg (qs. gýgi), to labour for an ogre or witch, the metaphor being taken from popular tales ?
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᚢᚴᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
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Abbreviations used:
- Lat.
- Latin.
- m.
- masculine.
- qs.
- quasi.
Works & Authors cited:
- Bb.
- Búnaðar-bálkr.
- Snót
- Snót, poems.