Þang
Old Norse Dictionary - þang
Meaning of Old Norse word "þang"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word þang can mean:þang
- þang
- n. [North. E. tangle; Dan., Scot., and Shetl. tang], kelp or bladder-wrack, a kind of sea-weed; hann var fólginn í þangi, Gullþ. 72, and passim; kló-þang. bólu-þang, belgja-þang, þunna-þang, = fucus vesiculosus, Hjalt.; æti-þang, edible sea-weed: the word is very freq. in mod. usage.
- þang
- 2. poët., hlíðar-þang = trees, Ýt.; hlíð-þang, id., Alm.; þangs hús, láð, ‘tangle-house,’ = the sea. Lex. poët.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚦᛅᚾᚴ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- Dan.
- Danish.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- l.
- line.
- mod.
- modern.
- n.
- neuter.
- North. E.
- Northern English.
- Scot.
- Scottish.
- þ.
- þáttr.
- id.
- idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
- m.
- masculine.
- poët.
- poetically.
Works & Authors cited:
- Gullþ.
- Gull-Þóris Saga. (D. II.)
- Hjalt.
- Hjaltalín, Icelandic Botany.
- Alm.
- Alvís-mál. (A. I.)
- Lex. Poët.
- Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.