vinsked (OSw) vindskeið (ON) noun

A board nailed to the slanting gable side of a roof protecting it against the wind. In ONorw GuL (ch. 307), the person commissioned to provide a vindskeið to a boathouse for a warship was fined if he failed to do this. In OSw, appearing as one of several boundaries delimiting the borders of a house or farm, and as such deciding who was responsible for finding the killer of a guest killed on either side of it.

bargeboard ONorw GuL Leb
OSw DL Mb Refs:

CV s.v. vindskeið; KLNM s.v. vindski