Set-berg

Old Norse Dictionary - set-berg

Meaning of Old Norse word "set-berg" in English.

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

set-berg Old Norse word can mean:

set-berg: n. [cp, the Cumbrian Saddleback], a seat-formed or saddle-formed rock or crag, Gs. 11, Edda 34 (from the points of Thor’s hammer); sitja setbergs (= á setbergi), Edda (in a verse).

set-berg: II. in local names in Icel., Set-berg, in western Icel. These fells were looked on as the mountain-seats of tutelary giants (land-vættir), cp. ‘vivo sedilia saxo’ in Virgil.

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

Abbreviations used:

n.: neuter.

cp.: compare.

Icel.: Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.

l.: line.

Works & Authors cited:

Edda: Edda. (C. I.)

Gs.: Grótta-söngr. (A. II.)

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