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Appendix C: Borders, Boundaries and Boundary Markers
Boundaries at sea
- marbakki (ON) n.
- Translated in Jó Llb 68 as 'sea bank'. A note in the translation says that this is 'the border between the shoal and deep water along the coast' (cf. CV) and was relevant to ownership rights of fish, seals and porpoises on the shore. Hertzberg mentions it as well and equates the term with both ON mararbakki and marreinsbakki.
- Refs: CV s.v. marbakki.
- netlag (OIce) n.
- 'Net-laying line'. See rekamark below.
- Refs: CV s.v. reki. KLNM s.v. reki.
- rekamark (OIce) n.
- 'Drift boundary'. Iceland is surrounded by ocean currents (Gulf Stream, Polar Stream) so the rights to gather driftwood and other things washed ashore was important and strictly regulated in the laws. A landowner had parts in the shore and had the right to collect anything that drifted ashore on his part, but also between the shore and an imaginative 'boundary' (rekamark) out in the sea. He also had the right to all catch, with certain limitations, within another restricted area with a defined boundary (netlög).
