Sumar-páskar
Old Norse Dictionary - sumar-páskarMeaning of Old Norse word "sumar-páskar" in English.
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- sumar-páskar
- m. pl. ‘Summer-Easter;’ whenever Easter falls between the 22nd and 25th of April inclusively, the first summer day will fall on the preceding Thursday, so that Easter Sunday falls on the first Sunday in summer; this is in Icel. called Sumar-Páskar.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛋᚢᛘᛅᚱ-ᛒᛅᛋᚴᛅᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- Icel.
- Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
- l.
- line.
- m.
- masculine.
- pl.
- plural.