1 vandar-högg (vandar-hǫgg)
n. a ‘wand-stroke,’ flogging, Bs. i. 871; in mod. usage a Law term for flogging as a punishment for theft or other such misdeeds; M.N. á að sæta … vandar-hagga refsingu, a standing law phrase in mod. Icel. sentences.
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