Búinn

As defined by A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (Geir Zoëga):

búinn Old Icelandic word can mean:

búinn

pp. (cf. búa),

búinn

1) prepared, fit, adapted;

búinn

ek em gamall ok lítt til ~ at (little fit to) hefna sona minna;

búinn

2) ~ at e-u, endowed with (at flestum íþróttum vel ~);

búinn

3) ready, willing;

búinn

margir munu búnir at kaupa, ready, willing to buy;

búinn

engir munu sínu sik búnari (more willing) til liðveizlu;

búinn

with gen., ~ þeirrar ferðar, ready to make that journey;

búinn

4) ~ til es, við e-u, on the point of;

búinn

hann var ~ til falls, he was just about to tumble;

búinn

var búit við váða miklum, there was an imminent danger;

búinn

5) svá búit, as matters stand, thus;

búinn

eigi má hlýða svá ~, it will not do thus, something else must be done;

búinn

stendr nú svá ~ um hríð, matters stand thus (unchanged) for a while;

búinn

þeir segja Eyjólfi til svá búins, they tell Eyolf the present state of things;

búinn

þér skulut ganga með vápnum, en berjast eigi svá búit, not fight as yet;

búinn

at svá búnu, as matters stand (hann kvaðst ekki fýsast til Íslands at svá búnu); at present, as yet (þenna draum segjum vér engum at svá búnu);

búinn

við svo búit, thus, things being so (þeir skildu við svá búit).

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛒᚢᛁᚾᚾ

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• Old Norwegian - Johan Fritzner's Dictionary