Vænir
Old Norse Dictionary - vænir
Meaning of Old Norse word "vænir"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- vænir
- or Venir, m. Lake Wener, in Sweden, Fas. ii. 4, 6, Hkr. i. 41; á ísi vatns þess er Veni heitir, Edda 82. One is tempted to think that in the verse of Bragi (Edda begin.) the word ‘vineyjar’ may cover this local name; perh. ‘Vaeneris (like mútaris, vartaris, see Gramm. p. xxvii, col. 1, ll. 21–25) víðri valrauf;’ the ‘wide spoil of the Wener’ = the island of Zealand, for the legend can only have applied to Lake Wener, and not to Lake Malar.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚢᛅᚾᛁᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- begin.
- beginning.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- perh.
- perhaps.
Works & Authors cited:
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Fas.
- Fornaldar Sögur. (C. II.)
- Hkr.
- Heimskringla. (E. I.)