fjǫr

See also: fjor, fjór, fjör, and fjør

Old Norse

From Proto-Germanic *ferhwą, *ferhwō. Cognate with Old English feorh, Old Saxon ferh, and Old High German ferah. Obsolete in modern English, German, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish. Compare the German Leib (“body”) and leben (“to live”).

fjǫr n

life
(poetic) the vital parts; the body
- Egill Skallagrímsson, Hǫfuðlausn (“Head's Ransom”, sometimes referred to as “Head-Ransom”):
  Fleinn hitti fjǫr.
  A pike struck the body.
vigour, spirit, energy

Especially frequent in alliterative phrases such as eiga fótum fjǫr at launa and fjǫr ok fé.
Often used in compounds in poems, especially when denoting loss of life e.g. fjǫrbann, fjǫrgrand and fjǫrlát.

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eiga fótum fjǫr at launa
fjǫr ok fé
fjǫrbann
fjǫrbaugsgarðr
fjǫrbaugsmaður
fjǫrbaugssekt
fjǫrbaugssök
fjǫrbaugur (life money, a legal term referring to a fee to be paid by a convict to the executive court, if this was not paid the convict was henceforth a full outlaw)
fjǫrfiskr
fjǫrgrand
fjǫrkálfr (one bounding with life as a young calf)
fjǫrlag
fjǫrlauss (lifeless, listless)
fjǫrlot
fjǫrlát
fjǫrmaðr (a vigorous man)
fjǫrmikill (full of life)
fjǫrnám
fjǫrrán
fjǫrsegi
fjǫrspell
fjǫrtál
með fullu fjǫri, vera með fullu fjǫri (to be in the full vigour of life)