Rekkr
Old Norse Dictionary - rekkr
Meaning of Old Norse word "rekkr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- rekkr
- m., dat. rekki, Hdl. 3; pl. rekkar; [akin to rakkr, q. v.]: prop. a straight, upright man, a franklin (?), a freq. word in poetry, see Lex. Poët. (Hkv. Hjörv. 18), but in prose only used in old law phrases: in the allit. law phrase, rekkr ok rýgr, man and wife; þann mann skal leiða á rekks skaut ok rýgjar, N. G. l. i. 209; árbornum manni (a noble) fjóra aura, rekks þegni (a freeholder, franklin)? þrjá aura, en leysingja tvá aura; as also, höldr, árborinn maðr, rekks þegn, leysingi, N. G. l. i. 172, 173 (the rekkr stands therefore as the third in rank next to a freed man); rekkar þeir þóttusk er þeir ript höfðu, they felt themselves proud, Hm. 48; Hálfs-rekkar, the champions of king H., Fas. ii. 25, Edda 107 (the etymology there given is a mere fancy).
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚱᛁᚴᚴᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- allit.
- alliteration, alliterative.
- dat.
- dative.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- l.
- line.
- L.
- Linnæus.
- lit.
- literally.
- m.
- masculine.
- pl.
- plural.
- prop.
- proper, properly.
- q. v.
- quod vide.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Fas.
- Fornaldar Sögur. (C. II.)
- Hdl.
- Hyndlu-ljóð. (A. II.)
- Hkv.
- Helga-kviða Hundingsbana. (A. II.)
- Hkv. Hjörv.
- Helga-kviða Hjörvarðssonar. (A. II.)
- Hm.
- Hává-mál. (A. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- N. G. L.
- Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)