yfirboð (ON) noun

authority OIce Jó HT 2
command OIce Js Kdb 2

yfirferð (ON) noun

visitation OIce KRA 3
ONorw BorgL 10

yfirhor (OGu) noun

Double adultery, that is, where both participants were married. This word occurs only in GL. The wronged party (malsaigandi, see malsæghandi) was considered to be the husband of the woman in the case, and he received twelve marker as did the ‘authorities’. The wife of the man not receiving any compensation. This is comparable to the situation where a married man commits adultery with an unmarried woman, in which case he pays her, but his wife receives nothing. The penalty was far higher (wergild equivalent or death) if the pair were discovered in flagrante as was the case if only the woman were married. It is worth noting that the expression lerdir ella olerdir ‘ordained or not ordained’ in the B-text of GL, implies that married priests were still a feature of Gotlandic society in the thirteenth century.

double adultery OGu GL A 21 Refs:

KLNM s.v. ægteskabsbrud; Peel 2015, 145 note 21/4; Schlyter 1877, s.v. yfir hor; SL GL, 271 note 2

yfirsókn (ON) noun

jurisdiction OIce Grg Klþ 4
right to govern and to prosecute ONorw GuL Olb, Leb

yfirsóknarmaðr (ON) yfirsóknarmenn (ON) noun

These were men acting as public prosecutors.

official ONorw GuL Krb
surveyor ONorw FrL Var 13 Refs:

Hertzberg s.v. yfirsóknarmaðr; KLNM s.v.v. lejde, sysselmann; RGA2 s.v. lender menn

ýki (ON) noun

exaggeration OIce Grg Misc 237
impossible tale ONorw GuL Tfb

ykia (OSw) verb

dispute OSw SmL

ylfa (ON) verb

bully ONorw FrL Var 46

yliansmæssa (OSw) noun

St Ilian’s Mass OSw DL Bb

ymil (OGu) noun

rumour OGu GL A 20a