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- In Norse law, a leysingi was a freed slave (a freed thrall). A leysingi had the right to be penalized for some types of wrongdoing, rather than receiving...
- their own freedom. Once a thrall man was freed, he became a "freedman", or leysingi, a member of an intermediary group between slaves and freemen. He still...
- 'beggar", bandingi 'captive', hamingja 'luck', heiðingi 'wolf', lausingi or leysingi 'homeless'; cf. Falk & Torp, p. 34; Vries, p. 163. Bugge, Sophus, Arkiv...