Var-nagli

Old Norse Dictionary - var-nagli

Meaning of Old Norse word "var-nagli" in English.

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

var-nagli: a, m., better varr-nagli, with a double r, [for it does not come from vara, to beware, the pun in Fas. i. 15 being a poetical conceit; the word is rather derived from varra or vörr, q. v.]:—the bung for the hole in a boat’s bottom; chiefly in the metaph. phrase, slá varnagla við e-u, to take precaution against a future leakage, a future emergency.

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

Abbreviations used:

m.: masculine.

metaph.: metaphorical, metaphorically.

q. v.: quod vide.

v.: vide.

Works & Authors cited:

Fas.: Fornaldar Sögur. (C. II.)

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