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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1633, 1687-1688
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Vivda, n. [Cf. Norw. dial. vovde, vørve, vodve muscle, the fleshy part of a limb, ON vǫðvi muscle.] Meat dried in the open air without being salted. — 1633 (1711) Sibbald's Orkn. & Shetl. 75.
There is a little holm in the midst of this loch, having a skeo in it, in which the owners use to dry their stock fish and vivda, i.e. flesh dryed without being salted a1688 Wallace Orkney 111.
Vivda, flesh dryed in a skeo, without being salted
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