raþman (OSw) raþmaþr (OGu) ráðsmaðr (ON) raþ maþer (OSw) rathman (ODan) noun

A compound with the noun raþ (OGu, OSw)/ráð (ON), and thus referring to a man giving advice, being in charge, acting on somebody else’s behalf etc. Specifically, a judge (OGu GL), one of several officials at a marketplace (OIce Jb), and a member of the king’s council (OSw UL). In town laws, an official, a townsman elected member of the town raþ, possibly for life; only some of the total number of raþmæn served simultaneously.

alderman ODan SkBL
OSw BjR
OSw MESt Kgb Gb Äb Jb Bb Kmb Skb Rb Eb Hb SmbI Tb Dob Add
councillor OSw MEL Kgb
OSw UL Mb
ealdorman OIce Jó Kge 28
magistrate OGu GL A 19, 31, 32, Add. 8 (B 55) Refs:

Cleasby and Vigfússon s.v. ráð; Fritzner s.v. ráðsmaðr; Gustafsson 2006, 54–59, 62–69; Hertzberg s.v. ráðsmaðr; Schlyter s.v. raþman