Skara
Old Norse Dictionary - skaraMeaning of Old Norse word "skara" in English.
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
skara Old Norse word can mean:
- skara
- að, [skör], to jut out; þá skaraði ofan léinn, Korm. 38; skara fram úr, to stand out, Lat. eminere; fram-úr-skarandi, eminent.
- skara
- 2. to poke the fire; en þeirri ösku sköruðu þeir allri út, they raked the ashes out, Eb. 316; skara eld, to poke the fire, Fas. ii. 109; skara að eldinum, id. (skörungr, a poker); hann skaraði til spjót-skaptinu, he poked with the spear-pole, 558; hann skaraði þá upp undir fótborðit, Gísl. 31.
- skara
- II. [Shetl. to skare; Dan. skarre], as a shipwright’s term, to clinch the planks of a boat, so that the lower edge of every plank overlaps the upper edge of the plank below it (hence skar-súð, clinch-work).
- skara
- 2. skarað skjöldum, a row of shields (formed like a ‘wall of shields’), Al. 47:—chiefly used of ships, whose gunwale was lined with shields from stem to stern, var skarat skjöldum milli stafna, Grett. 97, Ld. 68; skipin vóru sköruð skjöldum á bæði borð, Fms. i. 100.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᚴᛅᚱᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
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Abbreviations used:
- Lat.
- Latin.
- m.
- masculine.
- l.
- line.
- Dan.
- Danish.
- n.
- neuter.
Works & Authors cited:
- Korm.
- Kormaks Saga. (D. II.)
- Eb.
- Eyrbyggja Saga. (D. II.)
- Fas.
- Fornaldar Sögur. (C. II.)
- Gísl.
- Gísla Saga. (D. II.)
- Al.
- Alexanders Saga. (G. I.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- Grett.
- Grettis Saga. (D. II.)
- Ld.
- Laxdæla Saga. (D. II.)