Old Norse

Noun

dagr m (genitive dags, plural dagar)

1. a day
   • Sverris saga 162, in 1834, F. Magnússon, C. C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur, Volume VIII. Copenhagen, page 398:

     […] fór þá enn aptr til liðsins, var þá ok komit at dægi; […]

     […] but came then back to his people, when the day was nearly come; […]

2. (in the plural) days, times
   • Knýtlinga saga 65, in 1828, Þ. Guðmundsson, R. C. Rask, C. C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur, Volume XI. Copenhagen, page 286:

     […] munu þeir bræðr hafa góða daga með Baldvina hertoga, […]

     […] the brothers will have happy days with the duke Baldwin, […]

Declension

Antonyms

• nátt ‎(“night”)

Derived terms

Descendants

References

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