Set-berg

Meaning of Old Norse word "set-berg"

As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:

Old Norse word set-berg can mean:set-berg

set-berg

n. [cp, the Cumbrian Saddleback], a seat-formed or saddle-formed rock or crag, Gs. 11, Edda 34 (from the points of Thor’s hammer); sitja setbergs (= á setbergi), Edda (in a verse).

set-berg

II. in local names in Icel., Set-berg, in western Icel. These fells were looked on as the mountain-seats of tutelary giants (land-vættir), cp. ‘vivo sedilia saxo’ in Virgil.

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᛁᛏ-ᛒᛁᚱᚴ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements