Blik

Old Norse Dictionary - blik

Meaning of Old Norse word "blik" in English.

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

blik Old Norse word can mean:

blik: n. [cp. Germ. blick and blitz; Engl. blink (in ice-blink, the gleam of distant ice-fields), and blaze], gleam, sheen, Scot. glint, Lat. nitor; barach þýðir b. eðr brjánda, Stj. 389. The original notion of fulgor is alien to Icel.; even augnablik, q. v., is of Dan. and Germ. extraction; a dead-calm sea is in Danish havblik and blikstille, but in Icel. blæja-logn. The gleam of metal (shields) is called blik, Edda 86 (poët.): of the sky, Breiðablik is the heavenly abode of the god Baldr, Gm. 12.

blik: 2. bleaching, Dan. bleg; blæjur á bliki, Fas. ii. (in a verse); lérept á bliki, n. G. l. i. 381.

blik: 3. hadd-blik, Edda 77.

blik: II. (for. word), the vizor on a helmet, in writers of the 14th and 15th centuries, Fas. iii. 229, Ann. 1393.

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

Abbreviations used:

cp.: compare.

Dan.: Danish.

Engl.: English.

Germ.: German.

gl.: glossary.

Icel.: Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.

l.: line.

Lat.: Latin.

m.: masculine.

n.: neuter.

poët.: poetically.

q. v.: quod vide.

Scot.: Scottish.

v.: vide.

L.: Linnæus.

for.: foreign.

Works & Authors cited:

Edda: Edda. (C. I.)

Gm.: Grímnis-mál. (A. I.)

Stj.: Stjórn. (F. I.)

Fas.: Fornaldar Sögur. (C. II.)

N. G. L.: Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)

Ann.: Íslenzkir Annálar. (D. IV.)

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