Þurra-búð

Old Norse Dictionary - þurra-búð

Meaning of Old Norse word "þurra-búð" in English.

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

þurra-búð
f. a ‘dry-booth,’ a cottage with no milk or cattle; þurrabúðar-maðr (-fólk), a dry-house cottager, of fishermen, opp. to farming cottagers.

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

Abbreviations used:

f.
feminine.
opp.
opposed.

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