hersir

Borrowed from Old Norse hersir.

hersir (plural hersirs)

1. A local leader in early mediaeval Norway.
   • 1997, “Egil's Saga”, in Bernard Scudder, transl., The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 52:

     There was a powerful hersir in Sognefjord called Bjorn, who lived at Aurland; his son Brynjolf inherited everything from him.

• godi
• jarl

• Risher, Sherri, Shirer, hirers

Possibly from Proto-Germanic *harisjaz (“army’s leader”), from Proto-Germanic *harjaz (“army”).

hersir m

1. (Norway) a local chief lord (up until about 1050)

• Icelandic: hersir
• Norwegian Nynorsk: herse
• Swedish: herse, härse
• Danish: herse
  • Norwegian Bokmål: herse
• → English: hersir

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “hersir”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• “herse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

hersir m (plural hersir)

1. hersir