Skír-teini
Old Norse Dictionary - skír-teini
Meaning of Old Norse word "skír-teini"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- skír-teini
- n. [cp. jartein], a proof, evidence (documentary or personal), freq. in mod. usage: skír-teinn, m. the name of a charmed sword, which shewed the guilt or innocence of one who touched it, Hem.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᚴᛁᚱ-ᛏᛁᛁᚾᛁ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- cp.
- compare.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- m.
- masculine.
- mod.
- modern.
- n.
- neuter.
Works & Authors cited:
- Hem.
- Hemings-þáttr. (C. H.)