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salr

salr

Old Norse

Noun

salr m (genitive salar, plural salir)

  1. room, hall
    • Vǫluspá, verse 4, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1:
      [] sól skein sunnan / á salar steina, []
      [] sun shone from the south / upon the stones of the halls. []

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Norwegian Bokmål: sal m
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sal m
  • Swedish: sal c

References

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