Síkr
Old Norse Dictionary - síkr
Meaning of Old Norse word "síkr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- síkr
- m. [Ivar Aasen sik; Swed. sik, små-sik]:—corregonus lavaretus, a kind of salmon, Edda (GL), Lex. Poët.; hence sík-tól, plur. from tál, in the verse in Kristni S., = the ‘sík-treachcry’ = the bait; halda sík-tólum í boðnar smiðju = to take the bait into the mouth, cp. gína flugu in the next verse.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᛁᚴᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- cp.
- compare.
- m.
- masculine.
- plur.
- plural.
- S.
- Saga.
- Swed.
- Swedish.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.
- Kristni S.
- Kristni Saga. (D. I. III.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.