Grafgangs-maðr

Betydelsen av det fornnordiska ordet "grafgangs-maðr"

Enligt Cleasby & Vigfussons fornnordisk-engelska ordbok:

Fornnordiskt ord grafgangs-maðr kan betyda:grafgangs-maðr

grafgangs-maðr

m. a Norse law term; if freed slaves married against their master’s will, and became paupers, the master might put them into an open grave till one died, when the survivor was taken out. The tale of Svaði digging a grave for the poor, Fms. ii. 222, refers no doubt to this cruel law, which is described in N. G. L. i. 33, but not recorded elsewhere.

grafgangs-maðr

II. generally a proletarian, N. G. L. i. 97.

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