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Old Norse
Etymology
From rǫk (“fate, judgment”) + stóll (“throne, seat”).
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈrɒkˌstoːlː/
Noun
rǫkstóll m (genitive rǫkstóls, plural rǫkstólar)
- council chair, judgement-seat
- Vǫluspá, verse 6, lines 1-2:
- Þá gengu regin ǫll / á rǫkstóla,
- Then all the Powers went / onto the seats of doom,
Declension
Further reading
- Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “rǫkstóll”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 507
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “rökstóll”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 345; also available at the Internet Archive