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aptann

aptann

Old Norse

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Noun

aptann m (genitive aptans, plural aptnar)

  1. an evening
    • Óláfs saga helga 131, in 1829, Þ. Guðmundsson, C. C. Rafn, Þ. Helgason, Fornmanna sögur, Volume IV. Copenhagen, page 308:
      [] þat varð til tíðinda um aptaninn síð, er myrkt var vorðit, []
      [] it happened in the late evening, when in it was dark, []

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References

  • aptann in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • aptann in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
  • aptann in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.