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See also: gödi, goði, and góði

godi ‎(plural godis)

A local chieftain in Iceland with religious and administrative duties.
- 1997, ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin 2001, p. 180:
  Odd was the chieftain of Borgarfjord on the south side of Hvita then. He was the godi of the temple to which everyone living south of Skardsheidi paid tribute.

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