Mar-svín
Old Norse Dictionary - mar-svín
Meaning of Old Norse word "mar-svín"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- mar-svín
- n. ‘sea-swine,’ sea-hog, a kind of whale, Eggert Itin.; marsvína-rekstr, Fél. vii. 28, the driving whales ashore.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛘᛅᚱ-ᛋᚢᛁᚾ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- l.
- line.
- n.
- neuter.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fél.
- Félags-rit.
- Itin.
- Itinerarium or Travels of Eggert Ólafsson, 1772.