Tafn

Old Norse Dictionary - tafn

Meaning of Old Norse word "tafn" in English.

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

tafn Old Norse word can mean:

tafn: n. [cp. Lat. daps; Gr. δαπάνη; the Greek word is analogous to sóa, which means to sacrifice and then to waste]:—a sacrifice, = Lat. victima, hostia, but only in a heathen sense, and obsolete; heilagt tafn, the holy sacrifice, Hd.; Gauts tafn, the victims of Odin, i. e. the slain, who in the heathen creed were an offering to Odin, the god of victory, Landn. (in a verse).

tafn: 2. a bloody prey, poët.; tafn fékksk hrafni, tafns leitandi hrafnar, hrafn fagnaði tafni, hrafn á ylgjar tafni, bola tafn und kló hrafni, Lex. poët. (in all these references ‘tafn’ is used by the poets to rhyme to hrafn); val-tafn, id.; gefa ærit tafn hrafni ok vargi, Karl. 152: in old eccl. writers, sæfa töfn, Stj. 348; tafn Guðs, 310 (victima Domini, Vulgate); fórn ok töfn, 655 xxiii. 1; fórnir ok töfn, id.

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

Abbreviations used:

cp.: compare.

Gr.: Greek.

i. e.: id est.

Lat.: Latin.

n.: neuter.

eccl.: ecclesiastical.

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

l.: line.

poët.: poetically.

Works & Authors cited:

Hd.: Hús-drápa. (A. I.)

Landn.: Landnáma. (D. I.)

Karl.: Karla-magnús Saga. (G. I.)

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

Stj.: Stjórn. (F. I.)

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