Laut
Old Norse Dictionary - laut
Meaning of Old Norse word "laut"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- laut
- f. [lúta; early Swed. löt = pasture, Schlyter], a hollow place, Grett. (in a verse), Lex. Poët.: the word is freq. in mod. usage, but seems not to be recorded in old prose; this word occurs in Landn. 197 (Hjaltdæla-laut).
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛚᛅᚢᛏ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- f.
- feminine.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- mod.
- modern.
- n.
- neuter.
- Swed.
- Swedish.
Works & Authors cited:
- Grett.
- Grettis Saga. (D. II.)
- Landn.
- Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.