Dæla

Old Norse Dictionary - dæla

Meaning of Old Norse word "dæla" in English.

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

dæla Old Norse word can mean:

dæla: u, f.

dæla: I. a small dale, Sturl. ii. 100 (Ed.)

dæla: II. a naut. term, a contrivance to serve the purpose of a ship’s pump, Edda (Gl.); hence dælu-austr, m. emptying a ship by a dæla, Fbr. 131, Grett. 95; dælu-ker, n. a kind of bucket: hann hað þrælinn færa sér í d. þat er hann kaliaði sjó, Landu. 251; hence the metaph. phrase, láta dæluna ganga, to pour out incessantly, chatter without ceasing, Grett. 98. The ancients cannot well have known the pump; but as dælu-austr is distinguished from byttu-austr, where the buckets were handed up, so dæla seems to have been a kind of groove through which the bilge water was made to run out into the sea instead of emptying every bucket by handing it overboard: in Norse döla means a groove-formed trough, eaves, a trench, and the like, D. n. iv. 751, Ivar Aasen s. v. dæla, p. 75.

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

Abbreviations used:

f.: feminine.

l.: line.

m.: masculine.

metaph.: metaphorical, metaphorically.

n.: neuter.

naut.: nautical.

s. v.: sub voce.

v.: vide.

Works & Authors cited:

Sturl.: Sturlunga Saga. (D. I.)

D. N.: Diplomatarium Norvagicum. (J. II.)

Edda: Edda. (C. I.)

Fbr.: Fóstbræðra Saga. (D. II.)

Grett.: Grettis Saga. (D. II.)

Ivar Aasen: Ivar Aasen’s Dictionary, 1850.

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