kjolsvarf

f., esp. in pl. mishaps, a miscarriage, accident, Bs. i. 200, Karl. 52, Fær. 194: in Grág. i. 224 misfarar is used of a crew perishing one after another, a case analogous to that told in Ld. ch. 18, and bearing on the old law of inheritance, by which all persons aboard a ship were one another’s heirs; so that it was important to know in what order they died, and who had been the last survivor, cp. kjolsvarf in the early Swed. law: the phrase, fara misförum, to have miscarried.