Hrót
Old Norse Dictionary - hrót
Meaning of Old Norse word "hrót"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word hrót can mean:hrót
- hrót
- n. [Ulf. hrôt = στέγη, Matth. viii. 8, etc., = δωμα, ib. x. 27, Luke v. 19, xvii. 31]:—a roof, only in poetry; hjarta hrót, poët. the ‘heart’s-roof,’ the breast, Landn. (in a verse); hreggs hrót, the ‘gale’s-roof,’ the sky; leiptra hrót, the ‘lightning-roof,’ the sky; heims hrót, the ‘world’s-roof,’ the heaven, Lex. poët. hrót-gandr, m. ‘roof-wolf,’ fire; or hrót-garmr, m. id., Lex. poët.
- hrót
- 2. the roof near the outer door is in mod. usage called rót, f.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚼᚱᚢᛏ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- etc.
- et cetera.
- f.
- feminine.
- id.
- idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- poët.
- poetically.
- Ulf.
- Ulfilas.
- v.
- vide.
- mod.
- modern.
Works & Authors cited:
- Landn.
- Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.