Mið-hæfi
Old Norse Dictionary - mið-hæfi
Meaning of Old Norse word "mið-hæfi"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- mið-hæfi
- n. a Gr. word [prob. = imperat. μεταβηθι, = go away]; the Orkn. S., in a report of Earl Rögnvald’s journey to Palestine in 1152, says that in Imbólar (= ἔμπολις? which the travellers took to be the name of a place) in Asia Minor when two persons met in a narrow lane the one used to shout, miðhæfi! miðhæfi! (answering to the Dan. varsko!), Orkn. 374.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛘᛁᚦ-ᚼᛅᚠᛁ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- Dan.
- Danish.
- Gr.
- Greek.
- imperat.
- imperative.
- n.
- neuter.
- prob.
- probably.
- S.
- Saga.
Works & Authors cited:
- Orkn.
- Orkneyinga Saga. (E. II.)