Vetving

Meaning of Old Norse word "vetving"

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

vetving

= vættvangr (?); ok var herranum at komit at hann möndi tekinn verða, ok dvalði hann dauða í vetvingum, he was on the point of being taken, but escaped death for the present, Mart. 123.

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