Meldr
Old Norse Dictionary - meldr
Meaning of Old Norse word "meldr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- meldr
- m., gen. meldrs and meldrar; [mala; Swed. mäld; Ivar Aascn mælder; Scot. melder; Mælder-skin, the name of a mountain glacier in Norway, from its likeness to a flour-bag]:—flour or corn in the mill: koma til melds, to go to the mill, Gs. 4; standa at meldri, 23; Fenju meldr, the flour of Fenja = gold, Lex. poët.; græðis meldr, sea-flour = sand (?), Edda (in a verse); the word is obsolete and poët., but remains in Sweden and Norway.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛘᛁᛚᛏᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- gen.
- genitive.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- poët.
- poetically.
- Scot.
- Scottish.
- Swed.
- Swedish.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Gs.
- Grótta-söngr. (A. II.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.