Old Norse

Alternative forms

• aftann, aptunn, eptann

Noun

aptann m (genitive aptans, plural aptnar)

1. an evening
   • Óláfs saga helga 131, in 1829, Þ. Guðmundsson, C. C. Rafn, Þ. Helgason, Fornmanna sögur, Volume IV. Copenhagen, page 308:

     […] þat varð til tíðinda um aptaninn síð, er myrkt var vorðit, […]

     […] it happened in the late evening, when in it was dark, […]

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References

• aptann in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aptann in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• aptann in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.