Mjöðm
Old Norse Dictionary - mjöðm
Meaning of Old Norse word "mjöðm" (or mjǫðm)
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- mjöðm (mjǫðm)
- f., gen. mjaðmar, [Ulf. miduma = μέσον]:—the hip (prop. the middle of the body); á klæði hans yfir mjöðminni, Niðrst. 3; fyrir ofan mjaðmir, Eb. 240; hjó á mjöðmina, Nj. 253; mjöðm ok herðarblað, Fb. ii. 24; rist, kné, mjöðm, n. G. l. i. 312:—in wrestling, leiða e-n á mjöðm, Bárð. 35 new Ed.; or bregða e-m á mjöðm, Fas. iii. 573, of a wrestling trick of throwing one’s antagonist by a movement of the mjöðm, called mjaðmar-bragð, the hip-trick, cross-buttock, Fas. ii. 148. mjaðmar-bein and mjaðmar-höfuð, n. the hip-bone, Þiðr. 89, Finnb. 334; á nárann fyrir ofan mjaðmarhöfuð, Sturl. ii. 41. ☞ No other word in the language rhymes with mjöðm; see the curious ditty in which a man and a ghost cap verses, Ísl. Þjóðs. i. 464.
Orthography: The Cleasby & Vigfusson book used letter ö to represent the original Old Norse vowel ǫ. Therefore, mjöðm may be more accurately written as mjǫðm.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛘᛁᚢᚦᛘ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- f.
- feminine.
- gen.
- genitive.
- l.
- line.
- L.
- Linnæus.
- n.
- neuter.
- prop.
- proper, properly.
- Ulf.
- Ulfilas.
Works & Authors cited:
- Bárð.
- Bárðar Saga. (D. V.)
- Eb.
- Eyrbyggja Saga. (D. II.)
- Fas.
- Fornaldar Sögur. (C. II.)
- Fb.
- Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
- Finnb.
- Finnboga Saga. (D. V.)
- Ísl. Þjóðs.
- Íslenzkar Þjóðsögur.
- N. G. L.
- Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
- Niðrst.
- Niðrstigningar Saga. (F. III.)
- Nj.
- Njála. (D. II.)
- Sturl.
- Sturlunga Saga. (D. I.)
- Þiðr.
- Þiðreks Saga. (G. I.)