Stól-brúða

Meaning of Old Norse word "stól-brúða"

As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:

stól-brúða

u, f. a ‘chair-bride,’ chair-post, thus called from the heads carved at the top of the uprights (Worsaae, No. 556); þeir sá Þór með hamri sitja skorinn á stóðbrúðunum, Fbr. 170; þeir sá Sólrúnu sitja á stóli ok var hár hennar bundit við stólbrúðurnar, Bárð. 31 new Ed. (thus the vellum brúðirnar of the Ed. is an error); hón hnígr þá aptr at stólbrúðunum, Fas. ii. 223; síðan drap hann sér við stólbrúði (-brúðu?), ok fann at þar sat maðr á stóli, Grett. 37 new Ed.

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᛏᚢᛚ-ᛒᚱᚢᚦᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements