skogher (OSw) skogh (ODan) skogr (OGu) skógr (ON) noun

The woods and forest were important economic assets yielding food for the animals, firewood and timber for building houses and joinery, iron and tar, hunting and fishing, birch-bark and bark for bast, and they were protected against misuse. Most important was also that the forest and woodlands offered next to unlimited land for expansion of cultivated land through slash and burn methods. These rights were also regulated. Mostly they were regarded as common resources.

forest ODan JyL 1
ONorw GuL Mhb
ONorw MLL Mah 8, 13 Llb 22
OSw ÄVgL Md, Slb, Urb, Äb, Jb, Fös, Föb
OSw DL Mb
OSw HL Mb, Jb, Blb, Rb
OSw KrL Bb Eb Hb DbII Tb Add
OSw MEL Bb Eb DbII
OSw MESt Eb
OSw YVgL Frb, Urb, Drb, Äb, Jb, Föb, Utgb, Add
wood (1) ODan ESjL 3
ODan JyL 1−3
ODan SkL 69, 71, 192, 194, 196−98, 201−07, 210
ODan VSjL 60, 66, 80, 87
OGu GL A 7, 13, 22, 25, 26
OSw ÖgL Db, Bb
woodland ODan JyL 3
OGu GL A 25, 26, 63
OIce Grg Klþ 8 Lbþ 174, 175
OIce Jó Lbb 4, 6 Llb 6, 17
OIce Js Mah 15, 30 Lbb 2, 13
OSw DL Bb
OSw KrL Kgb
OSw SdmL Jb, Mb, Till
OSw UL Mb, Jb, Blb
OSw VmL Kkb, Mb, Bb
woods ONorw FrL Mhb 22
Expressions:

hæghneth skogh (ODan)

enclosed wood(land) ODan SkL 191, 193, 195−98, 201, 203, 204, 206, 207, 210

Refs:

CV s.v. skógr; Fritzner s.v. skógr; Eliasson and Hamilton 1999, 47–54; Hoff 1997, 262–87; Kardell 2003, 54–105; KLNM s.v. skog; ONP s.v. skógr