Metta
Old Norse Dictionary - metta
Meaning of Old Norse word "metta"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word metta can mean:metta
- metta
- að, [matr], to fill with food; Jesus mettar fjórar þúsundir manna, Icel. Almanack for the 7th Sunday after Trinity, and passim in mod. usage: reflex. mettask, to eat one’s fill.
- metta
- II. in old writers chiefly in the part. mettr, having eaten one’s fill; having done; þveginn ok m., Hm. 60; ok er Egill var m., Eg. 566; þá var Flosi m., ok af borit af borðinu, Nj. 176; görðu þeir þá eld ok matbjuggu, en er þeir vóru mettir, Fms. i. 9, 209, ix. 353, Glúm. 357, Fs. 105, Eb. 20; en þeir neyttu ok urðu mettir, Mark viii. 8.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛘᛁᛏᛏᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- l.
- line.
- mod.
- modern.
- reflex.
- retlexive.
- m.
- masculine.
- part.
- participle.
Works & Authors cited:
- Eb.
- Eyrbyggja Saga. (D. II.)
- Eg.
- Egils Saga. (D. II.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Fs.
- Forn-sögur. (D. II.)
- Glúm.
- Víga-Glúms Saga. (D. II.)
- Hm.
- Hává-mál. (A. I.)
- Nj.
- Njála. (D. II.)