hersir

English

Etymology

Old Norse hersir.

Noun

hersir (plural hersirs)

  1. A local leader in early mediaeval Scandinavia.
    • 1997: There was a powerful hersir in Sognefjord called Bjorn, who lived at Aurland; his son Brynjolf inherited everything from him. — ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin 2001, p. 52)

Anagrams

Old Norse

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Germanic *harisjaz (“army's leader”)

Noun

hersir m

  1. (Norway) a local chief lord (up until about 1050)

Declension
  Declension of hersir (strong ija-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hersir hersirinn hersar hersarnir
accusative hersi hersinn hersa hersana
dative hersi hersinum hersum hersunum
genitive hersis hersisins hersa hersanna

Descendants

References
  • hersir in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “herse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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