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Gref-leysingr

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1 gref-leysingr

m. a law term, a kind of freedman, intermediate between a freedman and a slave, a freedman, but whose freedom is not published from the thingvold and who has not been ‘leiddr í lög,’ defined in Grág. i. 358.
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Runic Inscription

gref-leysingr

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark

The runic text above represents the Old Norse word "gref-leysingr" as it might appear in runic inscriptions from the Viking Age (c. 800-1100 CE).

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Common Abbreviations

id
idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
m.
masculine.

Works & Authors

Grág.
Grágás. (B. I.)

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