Búr

Old Norse Dictionary - búr

Meaning of Old Norse word "búr" in English.

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

búr Old Norse word can mean:

búr: n. [Hel. bûr = habitaculum; A. S. bûr; Engl. bower; Scot. and North. E. byre; Germ. bauer], a word common to all Teut. idioms, and in the most of them denoting a chamber; this sense only occurs a few times in some of the old poems, esp. the VölS. kviður, and even only as an allit. phrase, Brynhildr í búri, Og. 18; björt í búri, Gkv. 2. 1: in prose now and then in translations of foreign romances, El. 22.

búr: 2. in Icel. only in the sense of larder, pantry (the North. E. and Scot. byre = cow-stall); this sense is very old, and occurs in Hallfred, FS. 89, where búri (not brúði) is the right reading, as the rhyme shews—’stæri’ ek brag, fyrir ‘búri;’ skellr nú lass fyrir búrin þeirra Reykdælanna, BS. i. 512. 601, Ld. 242; defined, búr þat er konur hafa matreiðu í, Grág. i. 459.

búr: β. a house where stores are kept = úti-búr, Nj. 74; now called skemma. In Icel. a game, in which children try to force open one’s closed hand, is called að fara í búr e-s, to get into one’s larder.

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

Abbreviations used:

allit.: alliteration, alliterative.

A. S.: Anglo-Saxon.

Engl.: English.

esp.: especially.

Germ.: German.

gl.: glossary.

Hel.: Heliand.

l.: line.

lit.: literally.

m.: masculine.

n.: neuter.

North. E.: Northern English.

S.: Saga.

Scot.: Scottish.

Teut.: Teutonic.

v.: vide.

Icel.: Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.

Works & Authors cited:

El.: Elis Saga. (G. II.)

Gkv.: Guðrúnar-kviða. (A. II.)

Og.: Oddrúnar-grátr. (A. II.)

Bs.: Biskupa Sögur. (D. III.)

Fs.: Forn-sögur. (D. II.)

Grág.: Grágás. (B. I.)

Ld.: Laxdæla Saga. (D. II.)

Nj.: Njála. (D. II.)

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