Verð-skulda

Old Norse Dictionary - verð-skulda

Meaning of Old Norse word "verð-skulda"

As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:

verð-skulda
að, (or older form verð-skylda, H. E. i. 498), to deserve, Fms. xi. 445, passim in mod., esp. eccl. usage.

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚢᛁᚱᚦ-ᛋᚴᚢᛚᛏᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements

Abbreviations used:

eccl.
ecclesiastical.
esp.
especially.
l.
line.
mod.
modern.

Works & Authors cited:

Fms.
Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
H. E.
Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiae. (J. I.)
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