Sem-sveinar
Old Norse Dictionary - sem-sveinar
Meaning of Old Norse word "sem-sveinar"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- sem-sveinar
- m. pl., of the Finnish messengers, prob. from Finn. Saomi, Fs. 22, for this seems to have been the real reading in the lost Cod. Vatnshyrna; Bartholin De Causis Contemptae Mortis, p. 467, gives the same reading; other copies read sendisveinn.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᛁᛘ-ᛋᚢᛁᛁᚾᛅᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- Cod.
- Codex.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- pl.
- plural.
- prob.
- probably.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fs.
- Forn-sögur. (D. II.)