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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Anon (FoGT) 17III

[All]: Several emendations are required to make grammatical and syntactic sense of this stanza. The modes of punishment mentioned in this stanza seem to capture C14th penal codes very accurately. Theft was punished by hanging in a public place, here a market place, while murderers were punished by being broken on a wheel (Gade 1985a; Ström 1942, 214-24).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Gade, Kari Ellen. 1985a. ‘Hanging in Northern Law and Literature’. MM, 159-83.
  3. Ström, Folke. 1942. On the Sacral Origin of the Germanic Death Penalties. Kungl. Vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademiens handlingar, 52. Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand.

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