An obscure or potentially misspelled term; meaning and origin are unclear in standard English dictionaries.
Possibly Old Norse or German in origin, but documentation is insufficient. This appears to be either a very specialized regional term or a word that may have been transcribed incorrectly.
Sometimes words in historical texts get so corrupted by poor handwriting or translation that modern scholars can't agree on what they meant—this might be one of those!
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