Sund

Meaning of Old Norse word "sund"

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

Old Norse word sund can mean:sund

sund

1. n. (qs. svumd), [from svimma, dropping the v and changing m into n]:—a swimming; koma á sund, Gþl. 447; kasta sér á sund. Eg. 219; á sundi, swimming, 123, Ld. 130; með sundi, by way of swimming, FmS. i. 112, Eg. 261, passim, see Grett. ch. 40, 80, Fær. ch. 38, Kristni S. ch. 10, Ld. ch. 33, 40; cp. also the story of Heming. Swimming was a favourite sport, the antagonists trying to duck one another; ‘sund’ is one of the sports in king Harold’s verses,—hetik sund numit stundum, FmS. vi. 170.

sund

B. COMPDS: sundfarar, sundfjöðr, sundfæri, sundfærr, sundföt, sundhreifi, sundíþróttir, sundlaug, sundleikar, sundlæti, sundmagi, sundmóðr.

sund

2. n. [quite a different word from the preceding, derived from sundr]:—prop. that which sunders, a sound, strait, narrow passage, channel, of water, Nj. 8, FmS. iv. 41; var þar sund í milli eyjanna, Eg. 218; í fjorðum eðr í sundum, Grág. ii. 385; Þuríðr sunda-fyllir, hóu seiddi til þess í hallæri á Hálogalandi at hvert sund var fullt af fiskum, Landn. 147: so in the saying, nú eru lokin sund öll, all passages were stopped, all hope gone, Hkr. i. 251: in local names, Eyrar-sund, Njörfa-S., Stokk-S., and in countless other compd names, Landn., FmS.: also a lane, alley, búðar-sund, the lane between two booths; bæjar-sund, the lane between two walls; í sundinu milli húsanna, in the lane between the houses, freq. in mod. usage: so also, flóa-sund, holta-sund, mýrar-sund, strips of fen between hillocks.

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2. a defile, hence Mjó-syndi, q. v.; var sund breitt (a broad channel) miilum knarranna ok skeiðanna, FmS. v. 169. sunda-leið, f. the ‘sound-passage,’ the coarse through the islands along the coast of Norway, Eg. 476, FmS. viii. 334.

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