holmgang

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. In Norse and Icelandic culture, a duel to the death. countable,uncountable
    — A man could no longer be challenged for his lands or his women-folk, since the only result of holmgang which the law would allow, apart from wounds or death, was a claim for the payment of the agreed stakes.

词形变化

holmgangs plural holmganga alternative

词源

From Old Norse hólmganga; cognate with Icelandic hólmganga, Swedish holmgång.
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