Karmr
Old Norse Dictionary - karmr
Meaning of Old Norse word "karmr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word karmr can mean:karmr
- karmr
- m. [Dan. karm = a frame; vindues-karm, dör-karm = a window-frame, door-frame]:—a closet; slæðu-karmr = vestiarium, Hallfred; öl-karmr, an ale cask, Landn. (in a verse); mjöð-k., a mead cask, Lex. Poët.; bekk-k., a bench frame, couch = Lat. triclinium, id.; kastalar ok karmar, Fms. iv. 49.
- karmr
- 2. a cart, B. K. 20, still used in that sense in Dan. and Norse.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᛅᚱᛘᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- Dan.
- Danish.
- id.
- idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
- Lat.
- Latin.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Landn.
- Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- B. K.
- Björgynjar Kálfskinn. (J. II.)