baugrygr
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
baugr (“ring, bracelet”) + rygr
Noun edit
baugrygr f (genitive baugrygjar)
- a woman who has inherited the position of head of a family and is thus entitled to receive and pay wergeld
See also edit
Further reading edit
- Robert Edwards, Vickie L. Ziegler, Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society (1995), page 85