rǫkstóll

Old Norse

FWOTD – 21 May 2018

From rǫk (“fate, judgment”) +‎ stóll (“throne, seat”).

rǫkstóll m (genitive rǫkstóls, plural rǫkstólar)

council chair, judgement-seat
- Vǫluspá, verse 6, lines 1-2:
  Þá gengu regin ǫll / á rǫkstóla, […]
  
  Then went all the gods / on the seats of doom, […]

Declension of rǫkstóll (strong a-stem)

rǫkstóll in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
rǫkstóll in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

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