Svarf
Old Norse Dictionary - svarf
Meaning of Old Norse word "svarf"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word svarf can mean:svarf
- svarf
- n. [sverfa], file dust; þélar hann sverðit allt í sundr í svarf eitt, ÞiðR. 79; járn-svarf, kopar-s.; rauð svörf þélar, Lex. Poët., freq. in mod. usage.
- svarf
- II. metaph. a hard fray, broil; þeim þótti í orðit nokkut svarf, Ísl. ii. 411; hann ríðr at í þessu svarfi, in the midst of the fray, Al. 40; ok sannast hit fornkveðna, at sitt ráð tekr hverr er í svörfin ferr, Fms. iv. 147.
- svarf
- 2. plur. shaving, extortion; með ránum ok svörfum, Fms. iii. 146; margr hefir sá meiri svörf (is more exacting), er minna treystir göngum, Skíða R. 23 (the passage should thus be emended).
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᚢᛅᚱᚠ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- mod.
- modern.
- n.
- neuter.
- l.
- line.
- metaph.
- metaphorical, metaphorically.
- v.
- vide.
- plur.
- plural.
- R.
- Rimur.
Works & Authors cited:
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.
- Þiðr.
- Þiðreks Saga. (G. I.)
- Al.
- Alexanders Saga. (G. I.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)