Also 8 erron. sutur-, sortebrand. [a. G. surturbrand, ad. Icel. surtarbrandr, f. surtar, gen. of Surtr (related to svartr SWART a.) name of a fire-giant + brandr BRAND sb.] A name for lignite as occurring in Iceland.
1760. Milles, in Phil. Trans., LI. 545. An extraordinary sort of wood, which they call sortebrand, or black brand.
1780. Von Troil, Iceland, 42. I have seen tea-cups, plates, &c. in Copenhagen made of suturbrand, which takes a fine polish.
1804. Phil. Trans., XCIV. 397. The Bovey coal is found in strata, corresponding in almost every particular with those of the surturbrand in Iceland.
1863. Baring-Gould, Iceland, p. xxiv. The alternation of basalt and surturbrand.
