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The Dala Law is known through only one remaining medieval manuscript, written c.1335 - 1353, and shows strong influence from older Swedish provincial law. It is one of the oldest known texts revealing details of life and conditions in Dalar during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
Sommario
Introduction The judicial province of Dalar
Ecclesiastical and secular administration
The Legal system
Execution
Taxation
The contents of the Dala Law
The History of the Dala Law Manuscripts, editions and translations
B 54
B 113
Printed editions
Facsimile
Translations into Modern Swedish
The language of B 54 and the present translation
A Dala Law or an Older Law of Västmanland? The Dala Law [The book concerning Christian law - Kristnu balker]
The book concerning the king's oath - Kunungs ezöre
The book concerning personal and property rights - Man-hælghis balkr
The book concerning building and community - Bygninga balkir
The book concerning matrimony - Giptninga balkr
The book concerning theft - Wm þiufnadh
The book concerning the legal process - Þing balkir 1
Info autore
Inger Larsson is Professor Emerita at Stockholm University, Department of Swedish and Multilingualism, Sweden, where she researches medieval law, literacy, history, and vernacular plant names. She has published part of her research in English in these fields such as
Pragmatic Literacy and the Medieval use of the Vernacular. The Swedish Example (2009),
Vernacular Plant-names and Plants in Medieval Sweden (2010), and she has been co-editor of
A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law (2020).
Riassunto
The Dala Law is known through only one remaining medieval manuscript, written c.1335 – 1353, and shows strong influence from older Swedish provincial law. It is one of the oldest known texts revealing details of life and conditions in Dalar during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
