sløkefrithe (ODan) noun

A (free) woman living with a man without being married. The woman could gain status of legal wife after three years (ODan JyL). Children were not called horbarn (‘children born in adultery’) and there could be varying rights to mutual paternal inheritance.


concubine ODan JyL 1, 2 Refs:

KLNM s.v. slegfred

Citation
  • ‘sløkefrithe’. A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law.

    • http://www.dhi.ac.uk/lmnl/nordicheadword/displayPage/4918
    (07/27/2024)