Dorga
Old Norse Dictionary - dorgaMeaning of Old Norse word "dorga" in English.
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- dorga
- að, to fish with a dorg: in mod. use dorg is only used of fishing through holes in the ice; metaph. Icel. also say, d. við e-t, to go angling for a thing, go dangling after it.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛏᚢᚱᚴᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- l.
- line.
- metaph.
- metaphorical, metaphorically.
- mod.
- modern.