svet (OSw) sveit (ON) noun

In Iceland a sveit was a type of geographical division akin to a smaller district (ON herað, see hæraþ), though it has also been suggested that it corresponded to an area overseen by a chieftain (ON góði). The term persists into modern Icelandic as a type of administrative district. In the Norwegian GuL a sveit refers to a division of the military, a squad. A svet in early Danish law appears to have been a division of a quarter (ODan fjarthing, see fjarþunger), though it is first attested in the fifteenth century. A sveit may also refer to a retinue, as of soldiers or of people accompanying someone performing sorcery (ON seiðr).

company OSw ÖgL Bb
district ONorw FrL Mhb 14
group OIce Grg Lrþ 117
part of the country OIce Grg Lrþ 117
region OIce KRA 15
squad ONorw GuL Leb
Expressions:

svet ok suævia (OSw)

company and retinue OSw ÖgL Bb

Refs:

CV s.v. sveit; Fritzner s.v. sveit; GDO s.v. II. svet; Hertzberg s.v. sveit; Hollander 1916; Jón Viðar Sigurðsson 1993; KLNM s.v. hird, militære enheder, sejd; Svavar Sigmundsson 2003