skatter (OSw) skattr (OGu) skattr (ON) skat (ODan) noun

Etymologically ‘livestock; valuables; coin; money’ used of tributes/duties/taxes. In OIce Jó, paid to the king beside the þingfararkaup (q.v.). In OSw HL, explicitly linked to the king and leþunger (q.v.).

tax ODan SkBL
OGu GS Ch. 2, 4
OSw HL Kgb
OSw KrL Kgb Bb Kmb Add
OSw MEL Kgb
OSw MESt Kgb Kmb
OSw YVgL Utgb
taxes OIce Jó Sg 1 Refs:

Helgi Þorláksson 2011, 143−46; Jónsson and Boulhosa, 2011, 158−60; ONP s.v. skattr