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ˈsyssel Iceland.
[ad. Icel. sýsla business, work, stewardship, prefecture, diocese.]
(See quots.) Hence ˈsysselman.
c1792Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) IX. 90/2 The governor [of Iceland]..has under him a bailiff, two laymen, a sheriff, and 21 sysselmen, or magistrates who superintend small districts. 1838Penny Cycl. XII. 427/1 These districts [of Iceland] are divided into syssels, or sheriffdoms, a sysselman being a magistrate and receiver of the king's taxes in each of them. |