Kárína

Old Norse Dictionary - kárína

Meaning of Old Norse word "kárína" in English.

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

kárína
u, f. [through Fr. carême, from Lat. quadragesima], a fast of forty days, ordered as a penance in the old eccl. law, H. E. i. 521, ii. 189, 191. kárínu-fasta, u, f. = kárína, Sturl. ii. 231.

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

Abbreviations used:

eccl.
ecclesiastical.
f.
feminine.
Fr.
French in etymologies.
l.
line.
Lat.
Latin.

Works & Authors cited:

Fr.
Fritzner’s Dictionary, 1867.
H. E.
Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiae. (J. I.)
Sturl.
Sturlunga Saga. (D. I.)
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