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undorn

undorn

Old Norse

Noun

undorn m (genitive undornar, plural undornir)

  1. mid-afternoon, 3 p.m.
    • Vǫluspá, verse 6, lines 7-10, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 2:
      [] morgin hétu / ok miðjan dag, / undorn ok aptan, / árum at telja.
      [] morning they named / and midday, / undern and evening, / years to count.
  2. mid-forenoon, 9 a.m.
    • Bjarkö-Ret 24, in 1846, E. Hertzberg, Norges gamle love indtil 1387, Volume I. Christiania, page 308:
      [] of hafa unninn eidinn fyrr en hringi undurn at kristſkirkiu.
      [] shall have taken the oath ere the bells at the church ring at undern.

Declension

Descendants

  • Danish: unden c (dialectal)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: undorn m
  • Swedish: undarn c (dialectal)

References

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