- þursa-stafr
- m., see þurs,—the notion of the magical Rune is preserved in the phrase, rísta e-m þursa-staf, to libel a person in a coarse, brutal manner; það var mesta ofdirfð af ótilkjörnu flóni, | að rista þenna þursa staf Þorláks-syni Jóni, Grönd.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.