Loðinn
Old Norse Dictionary - loðinn
Meaning of Old Norse word "loðinn"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word loðinn can mean:loðinn
- loðinn
- part. shaggy, thick, of a fleece, as also of a field, crop of grass; loðin sem dýr, Al. 171; loðin sem selr, Fb. ii. 26; Loppa með loðna skó, Ísl. Þjóðs.; ær loðnar ok lembdar, ewes in fleece and with lamb, Grág. i. 502, Bs. i. 334, passim: of grass, túnit var úslegit ok gékk hestrinn þangat sem loðnast var, Grett. 107; var taðan svá loðin, at …, Finnb. 340, Stj. 258, Fb. i. 522; á grasi þóat loðit væri, Fms. ii. 278; kaf-loðinn, very shaggy or thick, of grass.
- loðinn
- COMPDS: loðinfingra, loðinhöfði, loðinkinni.
- loðinn
- II. in pr. names, Loðinn, Fms.; Loð-höttr, Loð-mundr, Landn.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛚᚢᚦᛁᚾᚾ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- l.
- line.
- part.
- participle.
- n.
- neuter.
- pr.
- proper, properly.
Works & Authors cited:
- Al.
- Alexanders Saga. (G. I.)
- Bs.
- Biskupa Sögur. (D. III.)
- Fb.
- Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
- Finnb.
- Finnboga Saga. (D. V.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Grág.
- Grágás. (B. I.)
- Grett.
- Grettis Saga. (D. II.)
- Ísl. Þjóðs.
- Íslenzkar Þjóðsögur.
- Stj.
- Stjórn. (F. I.)
- Landn.
- Landnáma. (D. I.)