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From Codex Holmiensis 37, the oldest known manuscript of Jyske Lov (1241):
"Mæth logh skal land byggæs, [...]
Waræ æi logh a landæ, tha hafthæ hin mest, thær mest mattæ gripæ."
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyske_Lov
http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/manus/41/dan/4/?var=1
[With law land shall be built, [...] Were there no law in the land, then had he the most, who could grab the most.]
Yes, it is a legal maxim and foundational to all the Norse codifications of common law.
In Iceland it is the motto of the law enforcement agencies and comes from Njál's Saga (written contemporaneous with Jyske Lov but describing events ~ 250 years earlier).
It is the first half of the full saying the second half, usually left unsaid and implicit is
"...en með ólögum eyða"
which roughly translates to "...but with no law the land shall be annihilated"
hm, that doesn't look right
wait
that should do it
I have almost no Old Icelandic memorized, but this one line I do have memorized -- though only the first half. Nice to see it. I wonder how far the lawlessness will go, and how much will be destroyed.
"NO Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the Land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right."
But the Magna Carta wasn't really about ordinary folks; it was about the rich, primarily the nobility and the church.
To a continental Northern European such as myself, it looks rather like any other håndfæstning. I bet Steinn can actually read it untranslated ;)
Jyske Lov is different, in that it is about the law for everybody in Jutland (including the duchy of Schleswig) and Funen. It is not just the attempt of the nobility to tie the hands of a future king.
Another difference is that the Magna Carta was written in Latin whereas Jyske Lov was written in contemporary Danish (although probably "adjusted" a bit here and there to make it more understandable to people with different dialects so it most likely doesn't represent any single, true dialect of contemporary Danish).
PS: What are those interestering rel="nofollow nofollow nofollow...etc" attributes that get auto-inserted into <a> tags?
No idea - some sort of block on spam relay
the comments here are breaking, just found a pile of proper comments that had been junk filtered but didn't get tagged for me to look at as "unpublished"
I am bemused, some default must have been reset globally on scienceblogs.com master module