branderfð (ON) noun

The branderfð, ‘foster inheritance’, was the foster father’s right to inherit from a foster son. The right was not reciprocal.


foster inheritance ONorw GuL Arb, Olb Refs:

KLNM s.v.v. branderfð, bålferd, kår; Robberstad 1981, 359–60

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

  • http://www.dhi.ac.uk/lmnl/nordicheadword/displayPage/683
    (04/19/2024)