Seiðr
Old Norse Dictionary - seiðr
Meaning of Old Norse word "seiðr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- seiðr
- m. [Norse sei], the gadus virens, a kind of fish, l., Edda (Gl.), Lex. Poët.; hence the mod. seiði, a fry; vara-seiði, the fry or young of fish.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᛁᛁᚦᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
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Abbreviations used:
- l.
- line.
- L.
- Linnæus.
- m.
- masculine.
- mod.
- modern.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.