Heinar-sufl
Old Norse Dictionary - heinar-sufl
Meaning of Old Norse word "heinar-sufl"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- heinar-sufl
- (heinar-smjör, hone-grease, Fb. iii. 425), n. the liquor in which mowers dip the whetstone, Fms. vi. 374: in poetry the sword is called hein-flet, hein-land, hein-vandill, the flat, land, rod of the hone, Lex. Poët.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚼᛁᛁᚾᛅᚱ-ᛋᚢᚠᛚ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- n.
- neuter.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fb.
- Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.