fjörbaugr
nafnorðkarlkynfjör-baugr
‘life-money,’ a law term, a fee amounting to a mark, to be paid by a convict of the lesser degree to the executive court (féránsdómr); and if this was not paid, the convict was henceforth a full outlaw::—hence the convict is called fjörbaugs-maðr and the lesser outlawry or conviction fjörbaugs-garðr, , because within a fixed space (garðr), the convict was safe, having paid the life-money, vide Þ. Þ. 32 , 40, 240, and the Sagas and laws passim. In two passages, 10 and Glúma 24, fjörbaugsgarðr is used in the same sense as þing-helgi, , of the sacred boundary of a meeting, regarded by the heathens as a sanctuary, 4 fine; in the Edit. of the passage ‘til Lóns’ is false, the probable reading being ‘til Lopz,’ Lopts; in the old Vatnshyrna the shank of the p was obliterated so as to make it look like n, and so one transcriber read ‘Lóns,’ another ‘Jóns;’ the reading ‘Lopts’ is born out by the historical context, also 5, 8; the word fjörbaugr is diffusely commented on in i. 137
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
- m.karlkyn (e. masculine)
- esp.especially.
- ch.chapter.
- sqq.following.
- viz.namely.
- q. v.quod vide.
- cp.compare.
- i. e.id est.
- MS.manuscript, manuscripts.
- prob.probably.
- COMPDSsamsett orð (e. compounds)
- Grág.Grágás. (B. I.)
- Nj.Njála. (D. II.)
- Flóam. S.Flóamanna saga. (E. I.)
- Eb.Eyrbyggja saga. (D. II.)
- Landn.Landnáma. (D. I.)
- H. E.Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiae. (J. I.)