umfærþ (OSw) noun

A procedure confirming a land purchase, where the buyer (or other recipient), the seller (or donor etc.), witnesses and landowners of the village inspected a piece of land by walking around it, when it was transferred.


circumambulation OSw ÄVgL Jb, Kva
OSw YVgL Gb, Jb, Kvab, Add Refs:

Ejdestam 1946, 86–114; Larsson 2009, 156–57; Lindkvist 2021, 52, n. 93

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

    • http://www.dhi.ac.uk/lmnl/nordicheadword/displayPage/5505
    (04/29/2024)