Vað-mál

Old Norse Dictionary - vað-mál

Meaning of Old Norse word "vað-mál" in English.

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

vað-mál
n. (sounded vammal, n. G. l. i. 362), no doubt qs. váðmál, measured stuff, standard cloth, from váð, stuff, and mál, a measure; in the old Scandinavian communities the vaðmál was the standard of all value and payment before coined gold or silver came into use, see the remarks s. v. alin; [Scot. wadmaal; Orkney and Dan. vadmel]:—a plain woollen stuff, woven in hand-looms; in mod. Icel. the home-spun vaðmál is distinguished from the foreign stuffs, called klæði (vaðmáls-treyja, klæðis-treyja); sæmri muu ei sínum ver, silki-klæddr sprakki, en meyja hrein og hýrlynd er, hulin vaðmáls stakki, Eggert; góð vaðmáls klæði, Fms. v.. 208; skera til klæða vaðmál, id.; stíka vaðmál í sundr, Ölk. 36; lét Þyri tjalda höllina grám vaðmálum, Fms. i. 118; tjalda með gráu vaðmáli, Grett. 132 new Ed.: Færeyskt vaðmál, D. n. ii. 559; rekkju-vaðmál, wadmal for bedclothes, Dropl. 20; vaðmál til seglbóta, Sks. 30; varning Íslenzkan í vaðmálum ok í ullu. Fms. x. 294; þat fé skal vera í vaðmálum eða í vararfeldum …, Grág.; sex alnir vaðmáls gilds, Kb. ii. 192; hafnar-vaðmál, plain common wadmal; hafnar vaðmál ný ok ónotin, Grág. i. 504; Rútr gaf henni hundrað álna hafnar vaðmála, Nj. 7; pakka vaðmál, H. E. i. 574, cp. Bs. i. 842 (spýtingana ok ‘pakkana’): as a standard, alin vaðmáls, mörk vaðmáls, Fb. iii. 343; vaðmála skuld, a debt paid in wadmal, Dipl. iii. 13: vaðmáls-klæði, -möttull, -sloppr, Fms. v.. 208, Þorf. Karl. 384, Bs. i. 674.

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

Abbreviations used:

cp.
compare.
Dan.
Danish.
f.
feminine.
Icel.
Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
id.
idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
l.
line.
L.
Linnæus.
mod.
modern.
n.
neuter.
pl.
plural.
qs.
quasi.
Scot.
Scottish.
s. v.
sub voce.
v.
vide.

Works & Authors cited:

Bs.
Biskupa Sögur. (D. III.)
Dipl.
Diplomatarium. (J. I.)
D. N.
Diplomatarium Norvagicum. (J. II.)
Dropl.
Droplaugar-sona Saga. (D. II.)
Fb.
Flateyjar-bók (E. I.)
Fms.
Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
Grág.
Grágás. (B. I.)
Grett.
Grettis Saga. (D. II.)
H. E.
Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiae. (J. I.)
Karl.
Karla-magnús Saga. (G. I.)
Kb.
Konungs-bók. (B. I, C. I, etc.)
N. G. L.
Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
Nj.
Njála. (D. II.)
Sks.
Konungs Skugg-sjá. (H. II.)
Þorf. Karl.
Þorfinns Saga Karlsefnis. (D. II.)
Ölk.
Ölkofra-þáttr. (D. II.)
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