Vöku-skarfr
Old Norse Dictionary - vöku-skarfr
Meaning of Old Norse word "vöku-skarfr" (or vǫku-skarfr)
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- vöku-skarfr (vǫku-skarfr)
- m., prop. a kind of gull, the kittywake (?), only used metaph. a person wide awake; hann er mesti vöku-skarfr!
Orthography: The Cleasby & Vigfusson book used letter ö to represent the original Old Norse vowel ǫ. Therefore, vöku-skarfr may be more accurately written as vǫku-skarfr.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚢᚢᚴᚢ-ᛋᚴᛅᚱᚠᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- m.
- masculine.
- metaph.
- metaphorical, metaphorically.
- prop.
- proper, properly.