Matar-ból
Old Norse Dictionary - matar-ból
Meaning of Old Norse word "matar-ból"
As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:
- matar-ból
- n., a Norse law phrase, referring to the taxation of an estate, thus, hundrað, sextigi … mánaða matarból, an estate of a hundred, sixty … months’ food, Fms. x. 153, n. G. L., D. n., B. K. passim.
Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛘᛅᛏᛅᚱ-ᛒᚢᛚ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements
Abbreviations used:
- L.
- Linnæus.
- m.
- masculine.
- n.
- neuter.
Works & Authors cited:
- B. K.
- Björgynjar Kálfskinn. (J. II.)
- D. N.
- Diplomatarium Norvagicum. (J. II.)
- Fms.
- Fornmanna Sögur. (E. I.)
- N. G. L.
- Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)