Slíma

Bedeutung des altnordischen Wortes "slíma"

Wie im Cleasby & Vigfusson Altnordisch-Englisch Wörterbuch definiert:

slíma

u, f. sliminess. slímu-setr, n., in the phrase, sitja slímusetr; in olden times, when wayfarers were hospitably entertained, a man who remained as guest above a certain time (three days at most, and for a stranger a single night) was said to sitja s., and was regarded as a vagrant or cosherer, and might be punished, n. G. l. i. 72, Gþl. 200; cp. þat var engi siðr at sitja lengr en þrjár nætr at kynni, it was not manners to stay longer than three nights in a visit, Eg. 698: exactly the same is still said in Scotland, see Lockhart’s ‘Life of Sir W. Scott,’ 1871, p. 589, in a foot-note.

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