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ljóðbiskup

nafnorðkarlkynljóð-biskup
(and lýð-biskup, Symb. 22), m. [from A. S. leôð-byscop; a word adopted from England through Christianity, and derived from A. S. leôð = people and byscop]:—a suffragan bishop, originally used of missionary bishops who preached the gospel among the ‘gentiles’ (gentes = leôð; Old Engl. lewd people), Bs. i. 690, Fms. ix. 278, Gþl. 364, Sks. 368, Hkr. iii. 362, Fms. vii. 240, H. E. i. 420, passim.