- virtr
- n. wort (in brewing).* * *n. [A. S. wyrt; Engl. wort; Ivar Aasen vyrt or vurt; Swed. vört]:—the sweet-wort, new beer, not yet fully fermented; virtr ok vín (ale and wine) is an allit. phrase; á víni ok virtri, Sdm. 8; and so in the Faroe lays, virtur og so vin, A.A. 322.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.