harðafang (ON) noun

This term (lit. meaning ‘that which is difficult to get’) refers to the mulct which a debtor had to pay to his creditor if the latter required distraint.

distraint ONorw GuL Kpb
recovery mulct OIce Grg Feþ 164 Fjl 221
OIce Js Kab 4
ONorw MLL Kab 3 Refs:

Hertzberg s.v. harðafang; KLNM s.v.v. execution, handarband; handsal, straff; Laws of early Iceland 2000, 391; Lúðvík Ingvarsson 1970, 266−72; RGA² s.v. zwangsvollstreckung