Lína
Old Norse Dictionary - lína
Meaning of Old Norse word "lína"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word lína can mean:lína
- lína
- u, f. a line, and as a naut. term, the bowline, Edda (Gl.), cp. bóglína: a rope, hann tók glófana, beltið ok knífinn ok línu mjófa, … eptir þat fór hann í festina ok lét línuna draga sik af berginu undir fossinn, Gullþ. 8. Norsemen mostly used ropes of walrus skin (svörðr), but ropes of flax are also mentioned; meðan strengr ok lína brestr eigi, Orkn. (in a verse).
- lína
- 2. mathem. a line, Rb. 472, 474; Miðjarðar-lína and Lína = the Line, Equator, mod.: a line in a book or writing (mod.), skrifa línu-skakkt, to write the lines unevenly.
- lína
- II. lín, a head-dress; Hlín línu, poët. a lady, Kormak; línu jörð, the earth of the lín = the head, Fms. v. 200 (in a verse); laut und línu, lysti at kyssa, Þkv. 27.
- lína
- COMPDS: línuakkeri, línustrengr.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛚᛁᚾᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- cp.
- compare.
- f.
- feminine.
- l.
- line.
- n.
- neuter.
- naut.
- nautical.
- þ.
- þáttr.
- m.
- masculine.
- mod.
- modern.
- poët.
- poetically.
- s. v.
- sub voce.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Gullþ.
- Gull-Þóris Saga. (D. II.)
- Orkn.
- Orkneyinga Saga. (E. II.)
- Rb.
- Rímbegla. (H. III.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Þkv.
- Þryms-kviða. (A. I.)