fjǫrsungr

Old Norse

Noun

fjǫrsungr m (genitive fjǫrsungs)

1. (zoology) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Usage notes

• Zoëga's definition is "A kind of fish". If its modern descendants are anything to go by, fjǫrsungr may be more of a weever.

Declension

  Declension of fjǫrsungr (strong a-stem)

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fjǫrsungr	fjǫrsungrinn	fjǫrsungar	fjǫrsungarnir
accusative	fjǫrsung	fjǫrsunginn	fjǫrsunga	fjǫrsungana
dative	fjǫrsungi	fjǫrsunginum	fjǫrsungum	fjǫrsungunum
genitive	fjǫrsungs	fjǫrsungsins	fjǫrsunga	fjǫrsunganna

Descendants

• Norwegian Nynorsk: fjesing
• Norwegian Bokmål: fjesing
• Swedish: fjärsing
• Danish: fjæsing

References

• fjörsungr in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.