Kleggi
Old Norse Dictionary - kleggi
Meaning of Old Norse word "kleggi"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word kleggi can mean:kleggi
- kleggi
- a, m. [klegg, Ivar Aasen; cp. North. E. and Scot. cleg = a horse-fly]:—a cleg or horse-fly, Stj. 481. 1 Sam. xxiv. 14; mý eða kleggja, Eluc. 22; flugur þær er kallask af alþýðu kleggjar, Best. 2.
- kleggi
- II. a cock of hay (hey-kleggi), Háv. 53, Fb. i. 523.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᛚᛁᚴᚴᛁ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- cp.
- compare.
- m.
- masculine.
- North. E.
- Northern English.
- Scot.
- Scottish.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Eluc.
- Elucidarium. (F. II.)
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.
- Stj.
- Stjórn. (F. I.)
- Fb.
- Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
- Háv.
- Hávarðar Saga. (D. II.)