Val-bráð
Old Norse Dictionary - val-bráð
Meaning of Old Norse word "val-bráð"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word val-bráð can mean:val-bráð
- val-bráð
- f. venison, cp. Germ. wildpret; in melta knáttú móðugr manna valbráðir, Akv. 36.
- val-bráð
- 2. (mod. val-brá), a livid spot on the skin, a ‘port-wine mark,’ medic. Lat. macula, Bs. i. 423 (see foot-note 10, so also vellums of Sturl. l. c.): freq. in mod. usage, e. g. hann hafði valbrá á hægri kinn: in Bs. i. l. c. as the nickname of a person so marked; this mythol. term reminds one of Hel, the northern Hecate, who is represented as black on one side, see Edda.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚢᛅᛚ-ᛒᚱᛅᚦ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- cp.
- compare.
- f.
- feminine.
- Germ.
- German.
- m.
- masculine.
- v.
- vide.
- e. g.
- exempli gratia.
- freq.
- frequent, frequently.
- l.
- line.
- Lat.
- Latin.
- l. c.
- loco citato.
- medic.
- medicine, medically.
- mod.
- modern.
- mythol.
- mythology, mythologically.
Works & Authors cited:
- Akv.
- Atla-kviða. (A. II.)
- Bs.
- Biskupa Sögur. (D. III.)
- Edda
- Edda. (C. I.)
- Sturl.
- Sturlunga Saga. (D. I.)