Rokkr
Old Norse Dictionary - rokkr
Meaning of Old Norse word "rokkr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- rokkr
- m. [Germ. rocken; Old Engl. rock], a distaff; sat þar kona sveigði rokk, there sat a lady twirling a distaff, Rm. 16 (yet spinning-wheels are said to have been first used in the 17th century); Katla spann garn af rokki, … þeir tóku rokkinn ok hjuggu í sundr, Kb. 32, 33 new Ed.: a popular riddle on the distaff by Stefán Ólafsson, Þrífættr piltr, þrifinn ok vandstilltr, Snót (1866). rokk-snælda, u, f., etc.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚱᚢᚴᚴᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
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Abbreviations used:
- Engl.
- English.
- etc.
- et cetera.
- f.
- feminine.
- Germ.
- German.
- gl.
- glossary.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
Works & Authors cited:
- Kb.
- Konungs-bók. (B. I, C. I, etc.)
- Rm.
- Rígsmál. (A. II.)
- Snót
- Snót, poems.