utiorþ (OSw) útjörð (ON) utjorth (ODan) noun

Refers to ‘land outside the enclosure’. In ON it is used of tenant estates and is equated with ON leiguból (cf. Sveinbjörn Rafnsson 1985, 153). Útjarðir were also the parcels of land that were not covered by odal in the kin. They could be inherited by women, whereas sons received the ‘primary estate’ (höfuðból) according to Jó Kge 7.

fields outside the village ODan SkL 56
outlying land OIce Jó Kge 7
ONorw MLL Ert 7
OSw KrL Rb Refs:

KLNM s.v. utmark; Myrdal 1999a, 125–30; 2011, 77–97; Rafnsson 1985, 153