Vá-beiða
Old Norse Dictionary - vá-beiða
Meaning of Old Norse word "vá-beiða"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- vá-beiða
- u, f., found in but two instances, and possibly only a corruption of vádáði, [cp. A. S. weâ-dæð], an evil-boding monster; görit svá vel, skerit vábeiðu þessa (v. l. troll þetta), Eb. 116 new Ed., where it is spelt with y, but wrongly, as is seen from the parallel passage in a vellum of Eg. (in a verse), where the word also occurS.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚢᛅ-ᛒᛁᛁᚦᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- A. S.
- Anglo-Saxon.
- cp.
- compare.
- f.
- feminine.
- l.
- line.
- S.
- Saga.
- v.
- vide.
- v. l.
- varia lectio.
Works & Authors cited:
- Eb.
- Eyrbyggja Saga. (D. II.)
- Eg.
- Egils Saga. (D. II.)