barnmynd (ODan) noun

The right of a husband to dispose over, though not sell, his wife’s ancestral lands and movables brought to the household, and to inherit a lot in her property at her death, if they had mutual, legitimate children.


entitlement by the birth of a child ODan ESjL 3
ODan SkL 7, 8, 29
ODan VSjL 1

lot in property through the birth of a child ODan ESjL 1 Refs:

Tamm and Vogt, eds, 2016, 303

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

  • http://www.dhi.ac.uk/lmnl/nordicheadword/displayPage/486
    (07/21/2026)