Fraukr
Old Norse Dictionary - fraukrMeaning of Old Norse word "fraukr" in English.
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- fraukr
- m. [Germ. frosch, etc.], a frog; kom hagl svá mikit sem frauka rigndi, Al. 169; the reading frauða-fætr in N. G. l. i. 351 ought to be frauka-fætr (frauþa = frauka), m. pl. frogs’ legs, aricles used in witchcraft; if nails (ungues), frogs’ legs, and the like were found in ‘bed or bolster,’ it made a person liable to outlawry, as being tokens of sorcery; cp. Shakespeare’s Macbeth, ‘toe of frog, wool of bat, and tongue of dog.’
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚠᚱᛅᚢᚴᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- cp.
- compare.
- etc.
- et cetera.
- Germ.
- German.
- l.
- line.
- L.
- Linnæus.
- m.
- masculine.
- pl.
- plural.
Works & Authors cited:
- Al.
- Alexanders Saga. (G. I.)
- N. G. L.
- Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)