Grafgangs-maðr

Bedeutung des altnordischen Wortes "grafgangs-maðr"

Wie im Cleasby & Vigfusson Altnordisch-Englisch Wörterbuch definiert:

Das altnordische Wort grafgangs-maðr kann bedeuten:grafgangs-maðr

grafgangs-maðr

m. a Norse law term; if freed slaves married against their master’s will, and became paupers, the master might put them into an open grave till one died, when the survivor was taken out. The tale of Svaði digging a grave for the poor, Fms. ii. 222, refers no doubt to this cruel law, which is described in N. G. L. i. 33, but not recorded elsewhere.

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II. generally a proletarian, N. G. L. i. 97.

Mögliche Runeninschrift im Jüngeren Futhark:ᚴᚱᛅᚠᚴᛅᚾᚴᛋ-ᛘᛅᚦᚱ
Jüngere Futhark-Runen wurden vom 8. bis 12. Jahrhundert in Skandinavien und ihren überseeischen Siedlungen verwendet