Heggr
Old Norse Dictionary - heggr
Meaning of Old Norse word "heggr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- heggr
- m. [Ivar Aasen hegg; Swed. hägg; Engl. hedge, Germ. hecken, from this tree being used for hedging], a kind of tree, the bird-cherry, Edda (Gloss.): freq. in old poetry, Lex. Poët.: whence Dan. hægge-bær, hægge-blomst, etc.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚼᛁᚴᚴᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- Dan.
- Danish.
- Engl.
- English.
- etc.
- et cetera.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- Germ.
- German.
- gl.
- glossary.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- Swed.
- Swedish.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.