Lyritar-eiðr

Signification du mot vieux norrois "lyritar-eiðr"

Comme défini par le dictionnaire vieux norrois-anglais de Cleasby & Vigfusson :

lyritar-eiðr

m. a ‘lyrit-oath,’ a kind of oath of compurgation in the Norse, but not in the old Icel. law; it was an oath of three, viz. of the person who took the oath, with two compurgators, in remembrance of the three lyrit stones, which gave the name to this oath of compurgation; nú skal lyritar-eið svá vinna, sjálfr skal hann vinna, ok annarr jafnréttis-maðr, … sá skal enn þriði, er …, N. G. l. i. 56, cp. Js. 30, Jb.; stendr lyritar-eiðr fyrir hvárt þriggja marka mál ok þau er minni eru, N. G. l. ii. 306; hón skal þess synja með lyritar-eiði með frjálsum konum tveimr, i. 376 (394), of a compurgatory oath in the case of a still-born child.

Inscription runique possible en futhark jeune :ᛚᚢᚱᛁᛏᛅᚱ-ᛁᛁᚦᚱ
Les runes du futhark jeune ont été utilisées du 8ème au 12ème siècle en Scandinavie et dans leurs colonies à l'étranger