Hjallr
Old Norse Dictionary - hjallr
Meaning of Old Norse word "hjallr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word hjallr can mean:hjallr
- hjallr
- m. [akin to hjalli], a scaffold, a frame of timber, Gísl. 31, Mar. 557, Hkr. ii. 175 (of a pedestal); seið-hjallr (q. v.), the scaffold on which witches sat.
- hjallr
- 2. a shed, esp. for drying clothes, fish, N. G. L, i. 137, H. E. i. 396, Vm. 174; fisk-h., a fish-shed; grinda-h., a shed of rails.
- hjallr
- COMPDS: hjallgrind, hjallviðr.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚼᛁᛅᛚᛚᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- q. v.
- quod vide.
- v.
- vide.
- esp.
- especially.
Works & Authors cited:
- Gísl.
- Gísla Saga. (D. II.)
- Hkr.
- Heimskringla. (E. I.)
- Mar.
- Maríu Saga. (F. III.)
- H. E.
- Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiae. (J. I.)
- Vm.
- Vilkins-máldagi. (J. I.)