bryti
nafnorð, karlkyn
old gen. brytja, mod. bryta, m. [A. S. brytta = villicus; old Dan. bryde], a steward, bailiff. This word occurs twice or thrice in Icel. books, of the bailiffs, of private farms, Nj. 201, Þorf. S. Karl. 408, Fs. 147; also of the two bishops’ bailiffs, Bs. 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, cp. a treatise of N. M. Petersen (‘Bonde og Bryde’) upon the subject, publ. in Ann. for Nord. Oldk. 1847; even used in Denmark as a pr. name, as Steward, Stewart in the Brit. Isles, Hkr. i. 228; bryta eðr hinum bezta manni er í bæ er staddr, Gþl. 428: the bryti was in Norway the head-bondsman, tveir þrælar, þjónn ok bryti, N. G. L. i. 70, 36.
Skammstafanir og tilvitnanir
Skammstafanir
- 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.
Tilvitnuð rit
- 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.)