skipreiða (ON) noun

Originally a coastal district (within the fylki), which had to provide a warship fully equipped with crew and food for a period of two months. These obligations were eventually transformed into yearly taxes.


warship district ONorw GuL Krb, Leb
ONorw MLL Þfb 2 Lvb, Llb 23
Refs:

Bagge 2010, 75; Hafström 1949, 18–20, 139–44 and passim; Helle 2001, 35, 77–78, 163–65, 168, 171, 174–75; Hertzberg 1895, s.v. skipreiða; Hobæk 2013:5, 64-75; KLNM s.v.v. leidang, skipreide, skeppslag; Robberstad 1981, 318–20, 390–92, 394, 399–401; Ødegaard 2013:5, 48

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

  • http://www.dhi.ac.uk/lmnl/nordicheadword/displayPage/4747
    (06/10/2026)