Meaning of våg | Babel Free

Definitions

1. wave
   archaic, common-gender
2. a scale (device for measuring weights or masses)
   common-gender, obsolete
3. narrow inlet (about conditions in Norway and on the Faroe Islands)
   archaic, common-gender

Equivalents

Examples

“Du er Kredsløbets Bytte, du Lille, / du er født til Vendettaens Aag, / og som Galliens Mor skal du stirre / hjerteræd ned i Krigshavets Vaag.”

You are the prey of the loop, you little one, you are born to the yoke of the vendetta, and as the mother of Gaul, you shall stare, frightened in your heart, into the wave of the sea of war.

“Der sad i Vaagen Præstemanden Hans Egede og læste i en gammel Bog, hvordan kristen Tro fordum havde bygget på Grønland.”

In the inlet, the priest Hans Egede was reading in an old book how Christian faith had once existed in Greenland.

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