Hölkvir
Old Norse Dictionary - hölkvir
Meaning of Old Norse word "hölkvir" (or hǫlkvir)
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word hölkvir can mean:hölkvir
- hölkvir (hǫlkvir)
- m., poët. a horse, Edda (Gl.); h. hvílbeðjar, poët. a clothes’ horse, cp. Dan. sænge-hest (?), Akv. 31; gólf-h., a ‘closet-horse,’ poët. a house, Bragi; borð-h., a ‘board-hobby,’ a ship, Lex. poët.
- hölkvir (hǫlkvir)
- II. the name of a mythol. steed, Edda.
Orthography: The Cleasby & Vigfusson book used letter ö to represent the original Old Norse vowel ǫ. Therefore, hölkvir may be more accurately written as hǫlkvir.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚼᚢᛚᚴᚢᛁᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- cp.
- compare.
- Dan.
- Danish.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- poët.
- poetically.
- v.
- vide.
- mythol.
- mythology, mythologically.
Works & Authors cited:
- Akv.
- Atla-kviða. (A. II.)
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.