That - I should have thought of - it equates with Anglo-Saxon Law - I believe when a person was declared "outlaw and Wolf's Head"
So for the ó look for ú I am glad to know this it will make things very much easier
Kveðja
Patricia
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--- In norse_course@ yahoogroups. com, "Patricia" <originalpatricia@ ...> >make óheilagur mean outlawed - notwithstanding you agree with MMandHP, there is no suggestion of making this word to mean outlawed, in any of the dictionaries unless it is where one of them (dictionaries) says something like unholy, the Complete Sagas of the Icelanders also gives it this meaning, (outlawed) and yet I am not comfortable with it, can you help Patricia, Zoega gives all words with the negative prefix ó- according to the alternative spelling ú-. He has the definition "outlawed" for 'úheilagr', as well as "unholy". The phrase 'falla óheilagr' is given in the CV entry for 'heilagr', which agrees with the translators. 'óheilagr' is here the opposite of 'heilagr', CV "inviolable, one whose person is sacred, who cannot be slain with impunity" [ http://lexicon. ff.cuni.cz/ png/oi_cleasbyvi gfusson/b0248. png ]. I'm not at all knowledgable about Icelandic law, but I think being declared an outlaw means that the person could be legally killed by anyone who caught them, and that no wergild/recompense could then be demanded by relatives. LN | |||
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