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björg

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, bjargar [v. bjarga], help, deliverance, out of need or danger, feeding the hungry, saving one’s life; unlawful ‘björg’ is that of giving help to an outlaw, who is ‘úráðandi öllum bjargráðum,’ one on whom no help must be bestowed, neither food, shelter, nor ferry; in several passages, and there commonly used in (bjargir) when in this particular sense; it was liable to a heavy punishment, and the case was to be summoned before the Fifth Court, Þ. Þ. 25, 42.
β. lögmæt björg, a lawful point of defence in pleading in the Court (v. bjarga sök), i. 73.2. means of subsistence, stores, provisions, food; fjögurra (átta) missera b., i. 197, 286.3. a name of a woman, Ingibjörg, Þorbjörg, Guðbjörg, ; in Swed.-Dan. ‘-borg,’ as in Ingeborg,
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  • f.kvenkyn (e. feminine)
  • gen.eignarfall (e. genitive)
  • e. g.exempli gratia.
  • plur.fleirtala (e. plural)
  • ch.chapter.
  • freq.frequent, frequently.
  • pr.proper, properly.
  • etc.et cetera.
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  • Grág.Grágás. (B. I.)
  • Ld.Laxdæla saga. (D. II.)