Vín

Meaning of Old Norse word "vín"

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

Old Norse word vín can mean:vín

vín

n. [this word, though foreign, is common to all Teut. languages, and is one of the few words which at a very early date was borrowed from the Lat.; it is found in the oldest poems, and appears there as a naturalised word; Ulf. has wein = οινος; A. S. and O. H. G. wîn; Germ. wein; Engl. wine; Dan. vin]:—wine; at víni, Hðm. 21, Gísl. (in a verse); en við vín eitt vápn-göfigr, Óðinn æ lifir, Gm. 19; vín var í könnu, Rm. 29. Wine was in early times imported into Scandinavia from England; þeir kómu af Englandi með mikilli gæzku víns ok hunangs ok hveitis, BS. i. 433, (in the Profectio ad Terram Sanctam, 146, for vim mellis, tritici, bonarumque vestium, read vini, mellis, etc.); or it was brought through Holstein from Germany, as in FmS. i. 111; Þýðerskir menn ætla héðan at flytja smjör ok skreið, en hér kemr í staðinn vín, in the speech of Sverrir, FmS. viii. 251; the story of Tyrkir the Southerner (German), Fb. i. 540, is curious:—for wine made of berries (berja-vín), see Páls S. ch. 9, and Ann. 1203: cp. the saying, vín skal til vinar drekka, Sturl. iii. 305; eitt silfr-ker fullt af víni, id.: allit., vín ok virtr, Sdm.

vín

2. poët., hræ-vín, hrafn-vín, vitnis-vín, = blood, Lex. poët.

vín

B. COMPDS: vínbelgr, vínber, vínberill, vínbyrli, víndropi, víndrukkinn, víndrykkja, víndrykkr, vínfat, vínfátt, vínferill, víngarðr, víngefn, vínguð, víngörð, vínhús, vínhöfigr, vínker, vínkjallari, Vínland, vínlauss, Vínlenzkr, vínleysi, vínóðr, vínórar, vínpottr, vínsvelgr, víntré, víntunna, vínviði, vínviðr, vínþrúga, vínþröng.

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