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Note to AngH Lv 5VIII (Heiðr 98)

[7] þriðjung ‘a third’: See Note to GizGrý Lv 1/5 (Heiðr 99) on the inheritance of the hornungr ‘bastard’, as Hlǫðr is called there. The closest parallel to the situation described here appears to be in Langobardic law, which allowed an illegitimate son to inherit one third where there was one legitimate son, who inherited two thirds (Grimm 1899, 655-6).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Grimm, Jakob [Jacob]. 1899. Deutsche Rechtsaltertümer. 4th rev. ed. by Andreas Heusler and Rudolf Hübner. Leipzig: Dieterich. Rpt. 1983. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
  3. Internal references
  4. Hannah Burrows (ed.) 2017, ‘Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks 99 (Gizurr Grýtingaliði, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 471.

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