Yfir-sókn
Old Norse Dictionary - yfir-sókn
Meaning of Old Norse word "yfir-sókn"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
Old Norse word yfir-sókn can mean:yfir-sókn
- yfir-sókn
- f. = yfirför, mostly as a law term, almost the same as veizla; Sveinn konungr gaf honum jarldóm ok Halland til yfirsóknar, Fms. vi. 295, Orkn. 66; lén ok yfirsókn, Fms. i. 87; ármenning, syslu, yfirsókn, Ó. H. 174, Fms. x. 196, passim.
- yfir-sókn
- 2. a visitation, survey, K. Þ. K. 61, v. l.; yfirsóknar-maðr, a surveyor, eccl., H. E. i. 255, and in a secular sense, n. G. l. i. 18.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚢᚠᛁᚱ-ᛋᚢᚴᚾ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- f.
- feminine.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
- eccl.
- ecclesiastical.
- l.
- line.
- L.
- Linnæus.
- v.
- vide.
- v. l.
- varia lectio.
Works & Authors cited:
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Orkn.
- Orkneyinga Saga. (E. II.)
- Ó. H.
- Ólafs Saga Helga. (E. I.)
- H. E.
- Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiae. (J. I.)
- K. Þ. K.
- Kristinn-réttr Þorláks ok Ketils = Kristinna-laga-þáttr. (B. I.)
- N. G. L.
- Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)