Definitions
Definitions
1 ein-virki
also ein-yrki, a, m. [verk]. a single worker, one who works single-handed, a poor husbandman that has no servants; the einyrki is reckoned partly as bóndi, and not cottager; he could serve as a neighbour (búi) in case of his property amounting to two cows’ value per head of his household (wife and children), Grág. i. 145, defined in ii. 42, 43: the Norse sense of the word, Gþl. 438, cp. Jb. 184: in N. G. L. i. 199 distinction is made between bændr, einhleypingar, and einyrkjar.
Runic Inscription
Runic Inscription
ein-virki
The runic text above represents the Old Norse word "ein-virki" as it might appear in runic inscriptions from the Viking Age (c. 800-1100 CE).