landaurar

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Old Norse

Etymology

From land (land) +‎ eyrir (money).

Noun

landaurar m pl

  1. "land-dues", a special tax or toll that Icelanders had to pay to the king on their arrival in Norway

Declension

Declension of landaurar (strong ija-stem, plural only)
masculine plural
indefinite definite
nominative landaurar landaurarnir
accusative landaura landaurana
dative landaurum landaurunum
genitive landaura landauranna

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “landaurar”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive