Skip-brot
Old Norse Dictionary - skip-brot
Meaning of Old Norse word "skip-brot"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- skip-brot
- n. a shipwreck, Grett. 98 A, Ísl. ii. 245; vera í skipbroti, to be shipwrecked, Fb. i. 341: wreck drifted ashore, Grett.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᚴᛁᛒ-ᛒᚱᚢᛏ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- l.
- line.
- n.
- neuter.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fb.
- Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
- Grett.
- Grettis Saga. (D. II.)