Kárína
Old Norse Dictionary - kárína
Meaning of Old Norse word "kárína"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- kárína
- u, f. [through Fr. carême, from Lat. quadragesima], a fast of forty days, ordered as a penance in the old eccl. law, H. E. i. 521, ii. 189, 191. kárínu-fasta, u, f. = kárína, Sturl. ii. 231.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᛅᚱᛁᚾᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- eccl.
- ecclesiastical.
- f.
- feminine.
- Fr.
- French in etymologies.
- l.
- line.
- Lat.
- Latin.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fr.
- Fritzner’s Dictionary, 1867.
- H. E.
- Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiae. (J. I.)
- Sturl.
- Sturlunga Saga. (D. I.)