Old Norse

Noun

rǫkstóll m (genitive rǫkstóls, plural rǫkstólar)

1. council chair, judgement-seat
   • Vǫluspá, verse 6, lines 1-2, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 2:

     Þá gengu regin öll / á rökstóla, […]

     Then went reigns all / on the seats of doom, […]

Declension

References

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