Gref-leysingr
Old Norse Dictionary - gref-leysingr
Meaning of Old Norse word "gref-leysingr"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- 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.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᚱᛁᚠ-ᛚᛁᚢᛋᛁᚾᚴᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- m.
- masculine.
Works & Authors cited:
- Grág.
- Grágás. (B. I.)