Appendix B: Agriculture and Forestry
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Pasture
Grazing and land for grazing was important all over the North, and non-cultivated land and forest land were important assets. The number of cattle a single farmer could keep depended on the amount of food available during the winter stalling. There are a number of words for land used for grazing reflecting its importance. Grazing took place in the toft, in the cultivated fields after harvest, in the fallow, in the meadow after the hay harvest and in the forests or in the Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic grass plains and mountains. Some of the more frequent words are listed here.
- bait (OGu) , beit (ON) n.
- Pasture.
- Refs: CV s.v. beit; KLNM s.v. beite; Schlyter s.v. bet.
- haghi (OSw) , haghe (ODan) , hagi (OGu) , hagi (ON) n.
- Enclosed area, in particular a fenced in pasture. Often in compounds for example hagabeit pastureland grazing (OIce), húshagi, home pasture (OIce); hema haghi, home pasture (OSw); hagamark pasture boundary (OFar); hagfastr grazing constantly (OFar); haglendi pasture (OFar); fjellhagi mountain pasture (OIce).
- Refs: CV s.v. hagi; KLNM s.v. beite, Schlyter s.v. haghi.
- fælöt (OSw) n.
- Pasture.
- See also löt below.
- Ref: Schlyter s.v. fæ löt.
- fæmark (OSw) n.
- Common pasture land of a village.
- Ref: Schlyter s.v. fæ mark.
- fæarganger (OSw) , fægang (ODan) , fjárgangr (OIce) n.
- The grazing of cattle or a passage or path used by the cattle (ODan, OIce).
- Refs: CV s.v. fé; Lund s.v. fægang; Schlyter s.v. fæar ganger.
- hiorþlöt (OSw) n.
- Pasture land.
- See also löt.
- Ref: Schlyter s.v. hiorþlöt.
- hiorþvalder (OSw) n.
- Pasture.
- Ref: Schlyter s.v. hiorþvalder
- löt (OSw) , laut (OGu) n.
- Pasture, green grass-ground, level field and a direct synonym of ON vall/völlr (pl. vellir).
- Ref: Brink 2004, 210.
- nautatröð (ON) n.
- Pasture.
- Refs: CV s.v. tröð; ONP s.v. tröð.
- sumarhagi (OIce) n.
- Summer pasture.
- Ref: CV s.v. sumarhagi.
- troth (ODan) , tröð (ON) n.
- 1) ‘enclosure’, 2) (pl. traðir) ‘a trodden path, passage’ and 3) ‘a plot of land allotted for cultivation, a fallow field’.
- Refs: CV s.v. tröð; Lund 1967 s.v. troth; ONP s.v. tröð; Schlyter s.v. troþ.
- úthági (OIce) n.
- Outer pasture.
- Ref: CV s.v. úthagi.
