Hvirfings-drykkja
Old Norse Dictionary - hvirfings-drykkja
Meaning of Old Norse word "hvirfings-drykkja"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- hvirfings-drykkja
- u, f. a drinking bout, a kind of club in Norway in olden times as opposed to the later gildi, q. v.; hann kvað þá engar veizlur hafa haft þat haust nema gildi sín ok hvirfings-drykkjur, Hkr. ii. 165; Ólafr konungr (who died A. D. 1193) lét setja Mikla-gildi í Níðarósi, en áðr vóru þar hvirfingsdrykkjur, Fms. vi. 440.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚼᚢᛁᚱᚠᛁᚾᚴᛋ-ᛏᚱᚢᚴᚴᛁᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- A. D.
- Anno Domini.
- f.
- feminine.
- q. v.
- quod vide.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Hkr.
- Heimskringla. (E. I.)