Lilja
Old Norse Dictionary - lilja
Meaning of Old Norse word "lilja"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word lilja can mean:lilja
- lilja
- u, f. [Lat. lilium], a lily, Stj. 562, Barl. 44, Trist. 7, Mag. 9: name of a poem, whence the saying, öll skáld vildu Lilju kveðit hafa, H. E. ii. 398:—metaph. of a lady, mín liljan fríð! Fkv. ii. 52: cp. den lillie-vaand (qs. lily-hand), epithet of a lady in the Danish Ballads.
- lilja
- COMPDS: liljugrös, Liljulag.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛚᛁᛚᛁᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- cp.
- compare.
- f.
- feminine.
- l.
- line.
- Lat.
- Latin.
- metaph.
- metaphorical, metaphorically.
- qs.
- quasi.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Barl.
- Barlaams Saga. (F. III.)
- Fkv.
- Forn-kvæði.
- H. E.
- Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiae. (J. I.)
- Mag.
- Magus Saga. (G. II.)
- Stj.
- Stjórn. (F. I.)