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
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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.