Tíunda

Old Norse Dictionary - tíunda

Meaning of Old Norse word "tíunda"

As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:

tíunda
að, to pay tithes, or have one’s property taxed for tithe; t. fé sitt, Grág. i. 202; tíunda fé sitt inni meiri tíund, id., K. Þ. K. 142, passim: also used with the amount, hann tíundar tuttugu, sextigi hundruð, i. e. his titheable property amounts to twenty, sixty hundred; see hundrað B.

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᛏᛁᚢᚾᛏᛅ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements

Abbreviations used:

id.
idem, referring to the passage quoted or to the translation
i. e.
id est.

Works & Authors cited:

Grág.
Grágás. (B. I.)
K. Þ. K.
Kristinn-réttr Þorláks ok Ketils = Kristinna-laga-þáttr. (B. I.)
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