Gref-leysingr

Old Norse Dictionary - gref-leysingr

Meaning of Old Norse word "gref-leysingr" in English.

As defined by the Cleasby & Vigfusson Old Norse to English dictionary:

gref-leysingr
m. a law term, a kind of freedman, intermediate between a freedman and a slave, a freedman, but whose freedom is not published from the thingvold and who has not been ‘leiddr í lög,’ defined in Grág. i. 358.

Possible runic inscription in Younger Futhark:ᚴᚱᛁᚠ-ᛚᛁᚢᛋᛁᚾᚴᚱ
Younger Futhark runes were used from 8th to 12th centuries in Scandinavia and their overseas settlements

Abbreviations used:

m.
masculine.

Works & Authors cited:

Grág.
Grágás. (B. I.)
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