Haukr

Old Norse Dictionary - haukr

Meaning of Old Norse word "haukr" in English.

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

haukr Old Norse word can mean:

haukr: m. [A. S. heafoc; Engl. hawk; O. H. G. habuch; Germ. habicht; Dan. hög; Swed. hök]:—a hawk, FmS. i. 119, xi. 21, Jb. 542: metaph. a hero, vera haukar görvir, FmS. vi. (in a verse); eiga sér hauk í horni, to have a hawk in the corner, to have one to back one; or perhaps the phrase is, hrók í horni, a rook in the corner, borrowed from chesS. Hawks were in olden times carried on the wrist, whence in poetry the hand is called the seat, cliff, land of the hawk, hauk-borð, -klif, -land, -mærr, -storð, -strönd, -völlr; the adjectives hauk-fránn (of the eye, flashing as a hawk’s eye), hauk-ligr, -lyndr, -snarr, -snjallr are all of them epithets of a bold man, Lex. Poët.: hauka-veiði, n. hawking, Gþl. 429: hauk-nefr, m. hawk-bill, a nickname, Landn.; sparr-h., a sparrow-hawk.

haukr: II. as a pr. name, Landn.; and in local names, Hauka-gil, Hauka-dalr, whence Haukdælir, m. pl. name of a family, Sturl.; Haukdæla-ætt, f. id.; Hauk-dælskr, adj. belonging to that family.

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

Abbreviations used:

A. S.: Anglo-Saxon.

Dan.: Danish.

Engl.: English.

Germ.: German.

gl.: glossary.

l.: line.

m.: masculine.

metaph.: metaphorical, metaphorically.

n.: neuter.

O. H. G.: Old High German.

S.: Saga.

Swed.: Swedish.

adj.: adjective.

f.: feminine.

id.: idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation

pl.: plural.

pr.: proper, properly.

Works & Authors cited:

Fms.: Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)

Gþl.: Gulaþings-lög. (B. II.)

Jb.: Jóns-bók. (B. III.)

Landn.: Landnáma. (D. I.)

Lex. Poët.: Lexicon Poëticum by Sveinbjörn Egilsson, 1860.

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

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