rishofþe (OSw) noun

A derogatory term for a child conceived during outlawry, possibly alluding to a secret conception in the forest on a scrub heap. Such children were excluded from any inheritance. Appears to be a direct correspondence to ON hrísungr ‘scrubling’. In OSw ÖgL a fence otherwise known as a ‘robbery fence’ (see ransgaþer) around an illegal clearing for cultivation in another’s forest.

brush-born OSw UL Äb
OSw VmL Äb
bush-child OSw KrL Äb
OSw MEL Äb
scrub-child OSw HL Äb
OSw SdmL Äb
shrub head OSw ÖgL Bb Refs:

Brink forthcoming; Ney 1998, 106−08, 115; Schlyter s.v. rishofþe