Hej,
 
All I could find was "hilditönn" Which is defined as a dog tooth in Cleasby and skögultönn being a  tusk.
Also found in Fritzner the very interesting "TANNFÉ" which as yu may imagine was maybe the Norse for the money hat the tooth-fairy left ider the pillow. Unfortunatey he does not provide a word for tooth-fairy
 
Modern Icelandic for fang is also, (I believe) "tannrót", but I could not find it in Fritzner, soooo...
 
Cheers
 
Fernando Guerrero
 
 
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: llama_nom
To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:32 PM
Subject: [norse_course] fangs


> Does anyone know if there was a more specific word like
English 'fang'?


vígtönn (fang, or on a person "eye tooth, canine")
höggormstönn (lit. striking--i.e. biting--snake's tooth)

Modern Icelandic also has 'höggtönn', but I haven't found this in
Fritzner's ON dictionary or that of Cleasby & Vigfússon, or in the
Orðabók Háskolans text database.  CV has the definition "canine tooth"
for a masculine word 'jótr' (genitive 'jótrs'), but Fritzner defines
this as a synonym of 'jaxl' "molar", also masculine.