Skálma
Old Norse Dictionary - skálma
Meaning of Old Norse word "skálma"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- skálma
- að, to stride with long paces, Hallfred (Fs. 106, where reflex.): freq. in mod. usage, hann gékk burt og skálmaði stórum, Od. xi. 539.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᚴᛅᛚᛘᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- mod.
- modern.
- reflex.
- retlexive.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fs.
- Forn-sögur. (D. II.)
- Od.
- Odysseifs-kvæði, prose, 1829.