"doomstead" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: doomsteads [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} doomstead (plural doomsteads)
  1. (historical) An Ancient Scandinavian public meeting for passing judgement and making group decisions; thing (public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country) Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-doomstead-en-noun-Kq~VUxH9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1897, The Younger Edda: Also Called Snorre's Edda, Or the Prose Edda, page 73:",
          "text": "The third root of ash is in heaven, and beneath it is the most sacred fountain of Urd. Here the gods have their doomstead.",
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        {
          "ref": "1935, The Earliest Norwegian Laws, page 376:",
          "text": "And the plaintiff shall set his doom over against [that of] the defendant after a space of five nights at the proper doomstead, whether he [the defendant] is there or not; and let the doom be set and held and let the men wait till midday. And when the midday is past, the plaintiff shall summon the defendant to a wager doom at the proper doomstead after a space of five nights.",
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        {
          "ref": "1940, Henry Binkley Stein, Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah, page 63:",
          "text": "There were many gardens and many gods with a central home or doomstead where judgment was given to all the gods and where they swore allegiance as mentioned in the story of the island of Poseidon.",
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