Lýr
Old Norse Dictionary - lýr
Meaning of Old Norse word "lýr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- lýr
- m., gen. lýs, a kind of fish, gadus pollachius, Edda (Gl.), = Norse lyr; whence lýr-gata, lý-braut, lý-slóð, lý-teigr, the track of the lyr, poët. = the sea, Lex. poët.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛚᚢᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- gen.
- genitive.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- poët.
- poetically.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.