Apaldr

Old Norse Dictionary - apaldr

Meaning of Old Norse word "apaldr" in English.

As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:

apaldr Old Norse word can mean:

apaldr: rs, m. pl. rar, [O. H. G. aphaltrâ; A. S. apuldre; Dan. abild; Swed. apel], doubtless a southern word, the inflective syllable dr being a mutilation of ‘tré,’ arbor, a word now almost extinct in Germany, (for a homely, common word such as ‘tré’ could not have been corrupted in the native tongue);—apaldr thus, etymologically as well as properly, means an apple-tree; fruits and fruit-trees were doubtless imported into Scandinavia from abroad; the word appears only in the later heroic poems, such as the Hkv. Hjörv. 6; the verses in Sdm. 5 are in a different metre from the rest of the poem, and probably interpolated, FaS. i. 120; epli á apaldri, SkS. 106; tveir apaldar (with the radical r dropped), FaS. iii. 60; apaldrs flúr, Karl. 200, 311: as the etymological sense in the transmuted word soon got lost, a fresh pleonastic compound was made, viz. apaldrs-tré.

apaldr: COMPDS: apaldrsgarðr, apaldrsklubba, apaldrstré.

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛅᛒᛅᛚᛏᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements

Abbreviations used:

A. S.: Anglo-Saxon.

Dan.: Danish.

l.: line.

m.: masculine.

n.: neuter.

O. H. G.: Old High German.

pl.: plural.

S.: Saga.

Swed.: Swedish.

v.: vide.

viz.: namely.

Works & Authors cited:

Fas.: Fornaldar Sögur. (C. II.)

Hkv.: Helga-kviða Hundingsbana. (A. II.)

Hkv. Hjörv.: Helga-kviða Hjörvarðssonar. (A. II.)

Karl.: Karla-magnús Saga. (G. I.)

Sdm.: Sigrdrífu-mál. (A. II.)

Sks.: Konungs Skugg-sjá. (H. II.)

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