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hersir
hersir
English
Noun
hersir (plural hersirs)
- 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)