Please note that the lexical concordance has not been reviewed and should not be referenced as a definitive and accurate concordance to the poetic corpus. Dates in particular may be taken from earlier editions and should be checked.
ONP: 1gísl sb. m....menn guldu gísla vísliga. ‘...wisely gave hostages. ’
1040notes...Sveinn setti gísla við meinum, ... ‘...Sveinn assigned hostages against damages, ...’
1064...s tók gísla, jók gjǫldin.... ‘...who took hostages increased the payments....’
1155...seldusk tvenna gísla; herr tók ... ‘...exchanged two hostages; people then ...’
1240Unz Víkarr, gísl Herþjófs, kom ... ‘Until Víkarr, the hostage of Herþjófr, came ...’
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