Svarfaðr
Old Norse Dictionary - svarfaðr
Meaning of Old Norse word "svarfaðr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word svarfaðr can mean:svarfaðr
- svarfaðr
- svörfuðr, svörfr, m. a sweeper, desolator (?), a nickname, Landn.; whence Svarfaðar-dalr, the name of a county in Icel.; Svarf-dælir, m. pl. the men from S.: Svarfdœla-saga, u, f. the Saga of the S., Landn.
- svarfaðr
- II. svarfaðr eru sjau tigir, Edda i. 534, v. l. 7 (in Cod. Ub. and Arna-Magn. 748).
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᚢᛅᚱᚠᛅᚦᚱ
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.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- pl.
- plural.
- S.
- Saga.
- Cod.
- Codex.
- v.
- vide.
- v. l.
- varia lectio.
Works & Authors cited:
- Landn.
- Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Arna-Magn.
- Arna-Magnacanus.
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Magn.
- Magnús Saga jarls. (E. II.)
- Ub.
- Uppsala-bók. (C. I.)