bakmæli (ON) noun

Back-speech, backbiting, slander. Described in Grg Misc 237 as a situation where two men slander each other with no witnesses and subsequently one of them boasts of this. The penalty for backbiting was lesser outlawry.


backbiting OIce Grg Misc 237 Refs:

CV; ONP

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

  • http://www.dhi.ac.uk/lmnl/nordicheadword/displayPage/443
    (07/18/2026)