borghan (OSw) borghen (ODan) burgan (OGu) burghan (OSw) noun

This noun and the associated verb, borgha, is used in a number of associated ways as is shown by the translations and instances listed below. It can refer simply to a guarantee of someone appearing at a certain time (to answer a charge, for instance), an early form of recognisance or bail, but can also involve other sorts of guarantee or surety, even in some instances the submission of a hostage. It can also mean the obtaining of credit (cf. ModEng cognate, ‘borrow’). This was specifically forbidden in GL in certain circumstances, although permitted in UL, VmL and ÖgL.

bail OSw BjR
OSw DL Bb
OSw HL Kmb
OSw MESt Kgb Rb
credit OGu GL A 65, Add. 9 (B 81)
OSw UL Kmb
OSw VmL Kmb
guarantee OSw DL Rb
OSw ÖgL Bb
OSw SdmL Kmb, Mb
OSw UL Mb
OSw VmL Mb
security OSw ÄVgL Tb
OSw ÖgL Rb
OSw YVgL Tb
surety ODan JyL 2
OSw KrL Kmb
OSw MEL Kmb
OSw MESt Gb Äb Bb Refs:

KLNM s.v.v. borgen, gidsler, kreditväsen; Peel 2015, 191 note 65/17−19; Schlyter 1877, s.v. borghan