salr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *saliz (“house, hall”). Cognate with Old English sele and Gothic *𐍃𐌰𐌻𐍃 (*sals), first part of Old Frisian selskip, also Old Saxon seli, Old High German sali and first part of selihūs and selihof.
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sol-, *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”).

Pronunciation

  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈsɑlr̩/

Noun

salr m (genitive salar, plural salir)

  1. longhouse of the Viking Period, typically a one room house, 15-75 meters long, 5-7 meters wide, with two rows of columns along the length inside, supporting a wood or turf roof, and bulging wider and taller around the middle. [1]
  2. room, hall
    • Vǫluspá, verse 4, lines 5-6, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1:
      […] sól skein sunnan / á salar steina, […]
      […] sun shone from the south / upon the stones of the hall. […]

Declension

Declension of salr (strong i-stem, ar-genitive)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative salr salrinn salir salirnir
accusative sal salinn sali salina
dative sal salinum sǫlum sǫlunum
genitive salar salarins sala salanna

Derived terms

  • auðsalr (“treasure hall”)
  • bergsalr (“sky”)
  • drjúpansalr (“clouded sky”)
  • dísarsalr (“temple”)
  • dǫkksalr (“sea”)
  • fjallasalr (“sky”)
  • foldsalr (“sky”)
  • grundarsal (“earth”)
  • heimssalr (“sky”)
  • heiðasalr (“sky”)
  • hjartasalr (“breast”)
  • hreggsalr (“sky”)
  • hásalr (“sky”)
  • mergjarsalr (“bone”)
  • mánasalr (“heavens”)
  • regnsalr (“sky”)
  • rǫðlasalr (“heavens”)
  • salakynni (“homestead”)
  • saldrótt (“domestics”)
  • salgarðr (“wall”)
  • salgaukr, salgofnir (“the cock”)
  • salhús (“room”)
  • salkona (“housemaid”)
  • salkynni (“homestead”)
  • salþjóð (“domestics”)
  • sandasalr (“sea”)
  • sólarsalr (“heavens”)

Descendants

  • Icelandic: salur
  • Faroese: salur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sal
  • Old Swedish: sal
  • Danish: sal
    • Norwegian Bokmål: sal

Further reading

  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “salr”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 510
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “salr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 346; also available at the Internet Archive
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