Mar-knútr
Old Norse Dictionary - mar-knútr
Meaning of Old Norse word "mar-knútr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- mar-knútr
- m. [marr = sea], a kind of fish, cottus scorpius. Norse martulk, Edda (Gl.), Eggert Itin. 359.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛘᛅᚱ-ᚴᚾᚢᛏᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Itin.
- Itinerarium or Travels of Eggert Ólafsson, 1772.