Þön
Old Norse Dictionary - þön
Meaning of Old Norse word "þön" (or þǫn)
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- þön (þǫn)
- f., gen. þanar, pl. þanir, [þenja], a scaffold or platform on stakes, on which nets and the like are stretched out for drying; þeir tóku gærur af þönum, Sturl. iii. 189; Loka lögvélar (i. e. the net) leika á þönum, Egilsson’s rendering of the verse in Herodotus i. 62; the word is freq.
Orthography: The Cleasby & Vigfusson book used letter ö to represent the original Old Norse vowel ǫ. Therefore, þön may be more accurately written as þǫn.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚦᚢᚾ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- f.
- feminine.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- gen.
- genitive.
- i. e.
- id est.
- l.
- line.
- n.
- neuter.
- pl.
- plural.
Works & Authors cited:
- Sturl.
- Sturlunga Saga. (D. I.)