Spá-mær
Old Norse Dictionary - spá-mær
Meaning of Old Norse word "spá-mær"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- spá-mær
- f. = spákona, Eb. (in a verse); in Norway spaa-möy is a knuckle in a cow’s foot (the same double sense as in Icel. vala?), used in the game of playing the wizard or prophet, Ivar Aasen.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᛒᛅ-ᛘᛅᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- f.
- feminine.
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- l.
- line.
- n.
- neuter.
Works & Authors cited:
- Eb.
- Eyrbyggja Saga. (D. II.)
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.