Þinga-menn
Old Norse Dictionary - þinga-menn
Meaning of Old Norse word "þinga-menn"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- þinga-menn
- m. pl. the name of the house-carles or body-guard of king Canute and his successors in England; it was a hired corps of soldiers, like the Wærings in Constantinople, Fb. i. 203, 205, Ó. H. 21, 25, Fms. vi. (in a verse). Þingamanna-lið, n. id., Valla l. 222, Orkn. 84 old Ed., Fb. i. l. c.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚦᛁᚾᚴᛅ-ᛘᛁᚾᚾ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- id.
- idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
- l.
- line.
- L.
- Linnæus.
- l. c.
- loco citato.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- pl.
- plural.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fb.
- Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Orkn.
- Orkneyinga Saga. (E. II.)
- Ó. H.
- Ólafs Saga Helga. (E. I.)
- Valla L.
- Valla Ljóts Saga. (D. II.)