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245 0 2 _aA lexicon of medieval Nordic law
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Jeffrey Love, Inger Larsson, Ulrike Djarv, Christine Peel, and Erik Simensen.
264 1 _bOpen Book Publishers,
300 _a1 online resource (586 pages)
500 _aAvailable through Open Book Publishers.
500 _aThe link to the digital counterpart of the project is available from the publisher's website.
505 0 _aIntroduction / Jeffrey Love, Inger Larsson, Ulrika Djärv, Christine Peel and Erik Simensen -- Nordic to English / Jeffrey Love, Inger Larsson, Ulrika Djärv, Christine Peel and Erik Simensen -- English to Nordic / Jeffrey Love, Inger Larsson, Ulrika Djärv, Christine Peel and Erik Simensen -- Appendix A: Administrative, Judicial and Fiscal Subdivisions / Jeffrey Love, Inger Larsson, Ulrika Djärv, Christine Peel and Erik Simensen -- Appendix B: Agriculture and Forestry / Jeffrey Love, Inger Larsson, Ulrika Djärv, Christine Peel and Erik Simensen -- Appendix C: Borders, Boundaries and Boundary Markers / Jeffrey Love, Inger Larsson, Ulrika Djärv, Christine Peel and Erik Simensen -- Appendix D1: The Monetary System / Jeffrey Love, Inger Larsson, Ulrika Djärv, Christine Peel and Erik Simensen -- Appendix D2: Weights and Measures / Jeffrey Love, Inger Larsson, Ulrika Djärv, Christine Peel and Erik Simensen -- Appendix E: Kinship / Jeffrey Love, Inger Larsson, Ulrika Djärv, Christine Peel and Erik Simensen -- Appendix F: Calendar of Church Feast and Fast Days / Jeffrey Love, Inger Larsson, Ulrika Djärv, Christine Peel and Erik Simensen.
506 _aOpen access resource providing free access.
520 _a"This volume is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of medieval Scandinavia. This polyglot dictionary draws on the vast and vibrant range of vernacular legal terminology found in medieval Scandinavian texts - terminology which yields valuable insights into the quotidian realities of crime and retribution; the processes, application and execution of laws; and the cultural and societal concerns underlying the development and promulgation of such laws. Legal texts constitute an unparalleled - and often untapped - source of information for those studying the literature, languages and history of medieval and Viking Age Scandinavia. The Lexicon is a welcome contribution to the study of medieval Scandinavia on two counts: firstly, it makes accessible a wealth of vernacular historical documents for an English-speaking audience. Secondly, it presents legal terminologies that span the languages and geographies of medieval Scandinavia, drawing on twenty-five legal texts composed in Old Swedish, Old Icelandic, Old Norwegian, Old Danish, Old Gutnish and Old Faroese. By collating and juxtaposing legal terms, the Lexicon thus offers its readers a fascinating, comprehensive window into the legal milieu of medieval Scandinavia as a unified whole. It is in this respect that A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law differs from the other major lexica that came before it: where relevant, it gathers closely related terms from multiple Nordic languages beneath single headwords within single entries. This approach illuminates the differences (and similarities) in usage of specific lexical items and legal concepts across geographic areas and through time. This dictionary contains over 6000 Nordic headwords, and is laid out as a standard reference work. It is easily navigable, with a clear structure to each entry, providing English equivalents; textual references; phrases in which headwords frequently appear; cross-references to aid readers in locating synonyms or cognate terms within the lexicon; and references to published works. Roughly one quarter of the headwords supply semantic analysis and detailed information on the textual and historical contexts within which a term might appear, which help the reader to engage with the broader legal concepts underlying specific terms. The Lexicon is thus designed to provide its readers not only with succinct single definitions of Norse legal terms, but with a sense of the wider Scandinavian legal landscape and worldview within which these concepts were developed. A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law is an ongoing project with a digital counterpart created within the department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism at Stockholm University. It is part of the wider 'Medieval Nordic Laws' project based at the University of Aberdeen."--Publisher's website.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
540 _aThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.
650 0 _aLaw
_zScandinavia
_xDictionaries.
650 0 _aLaw
_zScandinavia
_xTerms and phrases.
650 0 _aOld Norse language
_vDictionaries.
650 0 _aScandinavian languages
_vDictionaries.
651 0 _aScandinavia
_xSocial life and customs
_xHistory.
700 1 _aDjärv, Ulrika,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aLarsson, Inger,
_d1945-
_eeditor.
700 1 _aLove, Jeffrey Alan,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aPeel, Christine,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aSimensen, Erik,
_eeditor.
710 2 _aOpen Book Publishers,
_epublisher.
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