páskafriður

Icelandic

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From páskar (“Easter”) +‎ friður (“peace”).

páskafriður m (genitive singular páskafriðar, no plural)

(historical, Catholicism) Truce of God around Easter (feuding being prohibited by the Church from the last Sunday before Lent until the 8th day of Easter)
- ca. 1230, Snorri Sturluson, Ólafs saga helga in Heimskringla:
  Er eigi það dauðasök Skjálgur ef maður brýtur páskafrið
  Is it not a matter of death, Skjalg, that a man break the Easter peace.

Declension of páskafriður (sg-only masculine, based on friður)

	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	páskafriður	páskafriðurinn
accusative	páskafrið	páskafriðinn
dative	páskafriði	páskafriðnum, páskafriðinum¹
genitive	páskafriðar	páskafriðarins

¹Less common.

Torfi H. Tulinius (1996) “Guðs lög í verkum Snorra Sturlusonar”, in Ný saga‎^[1], pages 33-34