Blá-mær
Old Norse Dictionary - blá-mærMeaning of Old Norse word "blá-mær" in English.
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- blá-mær
- f. [mœrr = moor, cp. landamæri, borders, Caes. Bell. Gall, vi. ch. 23], the blue moor, an απ. λεγ. in the Norse poet Eyvind Skáldaspillir as an epithet of the sea about A. D. 960, Hkr. i. 154; cp. Landn. 54, which reads borðmærar, and attributes the verse to another poet. The word is still in use in Norway in the popular phrase, ut aa blaamyra: vide Ivar Aasen s. v. blaamyr, the sea.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛒᛚᛅ-ᛘᛅᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- A. D.
- Anno Domini.
- απ. λεγ.
- απαξ. λεγόμενον.
- ch.
- chapter.
- cp.
- compare.
- f.
- feminine.
- l.
- line.
- n.
- neuter.
- s. v.
- sub voce.
- v.
- vide.
Works & Authors cited:
- Hkr.
- Heimskringla. (E. I.)
- Ivar Aasen
- Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.
- Landn.
- Landnáma. (D. I.)
- Skálda
- Skálda. (H. I.)