Old Norse

Noun

garðr m (genitive garðs, plural garðar)

1. a fence, wall
   • Grágás, in 1829, J. F. W. Schlegel, Hin forna lögbok islendinga sem nefnist Gragas, Volume II. Copenhagen, page 264:

     Ef þar er garðr of þioþbraut þvera, […]

     If there is a fence on a high road, […]

2. (especially in compounds) an enclosed space, yard
   • Konungs skuggsjá 10, in 1848, R. Keyser, P. R. Munch, C. R. Unger, Speculum regale. Konungs-skuggsjá. Konge-speilet. Christiania, page 23:

     […] heldr eru þeir reistir umhverfis kirkjuna við kirkjugarðinn, […]

     […] but rather set up around the church along the churchyard, […]

3. a courtyard, court
   • Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar 1, in 1835, F. Magnússon, C. C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur, Volume X. Copenhagen, page 218:

     […] er hann com heim í þorpit, oc geck um garðinn, […]

     […] when he came home to the town and walked through the courtyard, […]

4. a house, dwelling
   • Egils saga 62, in 1809, Guðmundur Magnússon, Egils-saga: sive Egilli Skallagrimii vita. Copenhagen, page 407:
     • Egill spurdi hvar garðr sá veri í borginni er Arinbiörn átti […]

     Egill asked where in the city was the house that Arinbjörn owned […]

5. (especially in compounds) a stronghold, castle, hold
   • Vǫluspá, verse 4, lines 3-4, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1:

     […] þeir er miðgarð / mœran skópu; […]

     […] those who Middle-hold / mighty shaped; […]

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References

• garðr in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• garðr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.