 | Paul Henri Mallet - 1847 - 640 sider
...which the whale was stranded, to the person who first descried it, &c., &c. At the early period of the commonwealth, when a man was suspected of theft, a...door of his dwelling, and hence called a door-doom (duradômr); but as this manner of proceeding generally ended in bloodshed, it was abolished, and an... | |
 | Paul Henri Mallet - 1847 - 598 sider
...which the whale was stranded, to the person who first descried it, &c., &c. At the early period of the commonwealth, when a man was suspected of theft, a...door of his dwelling, and hence called a door-doom (duradomr); but as this manner of proceeding generally ended in bloodshed, it was abolished, and an... | |
 | Paul Henri Mallet - 1847 - 606 sider
...which the whale was stranded, to the person who first descried it, &c., &c. At the early period of the commonwealth, when a man was suspected of theft, a...door of his dwelling, and hence called a door-doom (duradomr); but as this manner of proceeding generally ended in bloodshed, it was abolished, and an... | |
 | Paul Henri Mallet - 1847 - 594 sider
...which the whale was stranded, to the person who first descried it, &c., &c. At the early period of the commonwealth, when a man was suspected of theft, a...door of his dwelling, and hence called a door-doom (duradomr); but as this manner of proceeding generally ended in bloodshed, it was abolished, and an... | |
 | Robert Ferguson - 1856 - 256 sider
...Yorkshire, signifying a tumult or uproar. I take this word to be from Old Norse c dyradomr, a " door-doom," thus explained by Mallet. " In the early part of the...proceeding generally ended in bloodshed, it was abolished." Hence the word might very naturally become synonimous with the tumult and uproar which, it appears,... | |
 | 1856 - 772 sider
...door-doom," thus explained by Mallett. " In the early part of the (Icelandic) commonwe:dth, when я man was suspected of theft, a kind of tribunal composed...twelve persons named by him, and twelve by the person whore g >ods had been, stolen, was instituted Were th» door of his dwelling, and hence called a doordoom... | |
 | John Christopher Atkinson - 1868 - 704 sider
...Also spelt dirdum, dirdam, dyrdum. ' I take this word,' says Ferguson, ' to be from ON dyra-dómr, thus explained by Mallet : " In the early part of...proceeding generally ended in bloodshed, it was abolished." Hence the word might become synonymous with the tumult and uproar which, it appears, generally characterized... | |
 | John Christopher Atkinson - 1868 - 750 sider
...Also spelt dirdum, dirdam, dyrdum. ' I take this word,' says Ferguson, • to be from ON dyra-dámr, thus explained by Mallet : " In the early part of...proceeding generally ended in bloodshed, it was abolished." Hence the word might become synonymous with the tumult and uproar which, it appears, generally characterized... | |
 | John Christopher Atkinson - 1868 - 684 sider
...proceedings. Also spelt dirdum, dirdam, dyrdum. ' I take this word,' says Ferguson, ' to be from ON dyra-ddmr, thus explained by Mallet: " In the early part of the...proceeding generally ended in bloodshed, it was abolished." Hence the word might become synonymous with the tumult and uproar which, it appears, generally characterized... | |
 | John Christopher Atkinson - 1868 - 686 sider
...spelt d.irdum, dirdam, dyrdum. ‘I take this word,' says Ferguson, ‘to be from 0. N. dyra-dómr, thus explained by Mallet: “In the early part of...kind of tribunal, composed of twelve persons named by hint and twelve by the person whose goods had been stolen, was instituted before the door of his dwelling,... | |
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In the early part of the (Icelandic) commonwealth, when a man was suspected of theft, a kind of tribunal composed of twelve persons named by him, and twelve by the person whose goods had been stolen, was instituted before the door of his dwelling, and... 
