Yrða

almenning

nafnorðkvenkynal-menning
and almenningr,
I. in almost always in the sense of fundus communis, ager compascuus, common land, belonging to a whole ‘fjórðungr’ (quarter) of the country, and thus wider than the ‘afrétt.’ It still remains in the local name of the deserts round Cape Horn at the north-west point of , and 124; also the passage in 3. The word is now seldom used except of wastes belonging to nobody: þat er almenning er fjórðungs menn eigu allir saman, ii. 392–394, 107, 3, ii. 345, 352, 359, 385, 26, 41, 124, in all those cases II. (Norse), [ almänning, pascuum, and almeinde, via publica or ager compascuus, Grimm R. A. p. 498]
1. common or public pasture (answering nearly to the afrétt), where cattle are grazed during the summer months, the Norse setr, sel: rarely used in writers. In , 114, used of Grímsey, an island off the north coast of Iceland, 450, 299, 311.2. the high-street, in a Norse town, ii. 241.3. the people, the public in general, common now in in this sense, 292, 493, 194; almennings matr, common food, ii. 5, 179.4. a levy, conscription; fullr, allr, hálfr a., a full, half levy of men and ships; fullr a. in Norway meant a levy of one in every seven male adults, ii. 199, iv. 142, i. 165, i. 66 (of the duties of Icelanders when residing in Norway). Metaph. (as a phrase) in 207, of raising the country, the institution being unknown in the Commonwealth.
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Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
  • m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
  • Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
  • fem.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
  • mod.modern.
  • cp.compare.
  • ch.chapter.
  • masc.karlkyn (e. masculine)
  • Swed.Swedish.
  • Germ.German.
  • milit.military.
  • COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
  • Fbr.Fóstbræðra saga. (D. II.)
  • Landn.Landnáma. (D. I.)
  • Íb.Íslendinga-bók. (D. I.)
  • Grág.Grágás. (B. I.)
  • Js.Járnsíða. (B. III.)
  • K. Þ. K.Kristinn-réttr Þorláks ok Ketils = Kristinna-laga-þáttr. (B. I.)
  • Ó. H.Ólafs saga Helga. (E. I.)
  • Gþl.Gulaþings-lög. (B. II.)
  • Jb.Jóns-bók. (B. III.)
  • N. G. L.Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)
  • Stj.Stjórn. (F. I.)
  • Bs.Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)
  • Fms.Fornmanna sögur. (E. I.)
  • D. I.Diplomatarium Islandicum. (J. I.)
  • Nj.Njála. (D. II.)