Bard. = the village of Bardister in the southern part of Northmavine (the district of Sulem). Ennisf. = the village of Ennisfirth, Nmw. Flad. or Fladab. = the village of Fladabister in the northern part of Conningsburgh. Irel. = the district of Ireland in the north-western part of Dunrossness. Lw. = Lerwick in Mainland. W.Burr. = the village West Burrafirth in Aithsting. W.Burra = West Burra Isle. W.Sw. = the village West Sandwick in Yell (Yw.).
Other abbreviations.
Aa. = Ivar Aasen, Norsk Ordbog. Christiania 1873.
Ant. (G. G., Ant.) = Gilbert Goudie, The Celtic and Scandinavian Antiquities of Shetland. Edinburgh and London 1904.
B. H. = Bjørn Haldorsen, Islandsk Lexicon. Copenhagen 1814.
Balf., Balfour = the Glossary to David Balfour’s “Oppressions of the Sixteenth Century in the Islands of Orkney and Zetland”, Edinburgh 1859 (Maitland Club), and also his Glossary to “Odal Rights and Feudal Wrongs, a Memorial for Orkney”, Edinburgh 1860 (Maitland Club).
Barcl., Barclay = MS. Supplement by Principal Barclay of Glasgow University, to Thomas Edmondston’s Shetl. and Ork; Glossary (see below: Edm.). The Suppl. contains special Shetl. words. A copy of Edmondston’s Glossary which belonged to Barclay, interleaved with white pages upon which the Suppl. is written, is preserved in the library of the Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh.
DN, D.N. = Diplomatarium Norvegium. Christiania 1849 ff.
Denn., Dennison = Walter Traill Dennison, The Orcadian Sketchbook. Kirkwall 1880.
Dict. Scott. Lang.: see below “Jam.”.
E. J. = Eirik Jonsson, Oldnordisk Ordbog. Copenhagen 1863.
EDD. = Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary. London 1898—1905.
Edm. = Thomas Edmondston, Glossary of the Shetland and Orkney Dialect (Transactions of the Philological Society of London 1866).
Eg. — Sveinbjørn Egilsson, Lexicon poeticum antiquæ linguæ septentrionalis. Hafniæ 1860.
F.A., Fær. Anth. II = The Glossary to V. U. Hammershaimb, Færøsk Anthologi, Copenhagen 1891 (published for “Samfund til udgivelse af gammel nordisk litteratur”).
Fejlb. = H. F. Fejlberg, Ordbog over jyske almuesmål. Copenhagen 1886 ff.
Fld. = Fornaldar sögur Norðrlanda. Copenhagen 1829, 1830.
Fr. = Johan Fritzner. Ordbog over det gamle norske Sprog. Christiania 1886—96.
F.F.S. = (The Glossary to) J. Jakobsen, Færøske folkesagn og æventyr.
G.V. (Vigf.) = Gudbrand Vigfusson (Cleasby and Vigfusson. Icelandic-English Dictionary. Oxford 1874).
