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bryti

nafnorðkarlkyn
old brytja, bryta, [ brytta = villicus; old bryde], a steward, bailiff. This word occurs twice or thrice in books, of the bailiffs, of private farms, 201, Þorf. S. 408, 147; also of the two bishops’ bailiffs, i. 247, 477, 839, 848, where bryti is inferior to ráeth;smaðr, a steward, and denotes the head-labourer in the bishop’s homestead. In Denmark it was more in use, a treatise of N. M. Petersen (‘Bonde og Bryde’) upon the subject, publ. in for Nord. Oldk. 1847; even used in Denmark as a name, as Steward, Stewart in the Brit. Isles, i. 228; bryta eðr hinum bezta manni er í bæ er staddr, 428: the bryti was in Norway the head-bondsman, tveir þrælar, þjónn ok bryti, i. 70, 36.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
  • gen.eignarfall (e. genitive)
  • mod.modern.
  • m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
  • A. S.Anglo-Saxon.
  • Dan.Danish.
  • Icel.Iceland, Icelander, Icelanders, Icelandic.
  • cp.compare.
  • pr.proper, properly.
  • Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
  • Karl.Karla-magnús saga. (G. I.)
  • Fs.Forn-sögur. (D. II.)
  • Bs.Biskupa sögur. (D. III.)
  • Ann.Íslenzkir Annálar. (D. IV.)
  • Hkr.Heimskringla. (E. I.)
  • Gþl.Gulaþings-lög. (B. II.)
  • N. G. L.Norges Gamle Love. (B. II.)