Varar-feldr
Old Norse Dictionary - varar-feldr
Meaning of Old Norse word "varar-feldr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- varar-feldr
- m. [in this and the following compds varar may be derived either from vara or better from vör (q. v.), denoting goods as they were sold in harbour]:—cloaks marketable in the trade, Grág. i. 500; hafskip kom af Íslandi, þat var hlaðit af vararfeldum, Hkr. i. 176, Nj. 7, Korm. 158.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚢᛅᚱᛅᚱ-ᚠᛁᛚᛏᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- m.
- masculine.
- q. v.
- quod vide.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Grág.
- Grágás. (B. I.)
- Hkr.
- Heimskringla. (E. I.)
- Korm.
- Kormaks Saga. (D. II.)
- Nj.
- Njála. (D. II.)