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Title Guta Lag and Guta Saga : the Law and History of the Gotlanders / edited by Christine Peel
Published Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015

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Series Medieval Nordic laws
Medieval Nordic laws.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of figures; A general introduction to the Medieval Nordic Laws translations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Maps; General introduction: Gotland's medieval historical background; PART I Guta lag: The law of the Gotlanders; Introduction to Guta lag; Historical background and codicology; Nature and content; Origins; Date, place and circumstances of composition; Editions and translations of Guta lag; Criteria applied for the present translation; Guta lag: Translation; Table of contents from B 64; List of regulated laws (from AM 54 4to)
Summary Guta Lag, the law of the independent island of Gotland, is one of the earliest laws of Scandinavia. The historical appendix to the law, Guta Saga, was written in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Together, Guta Lag and its accompanying Saga provide an invaluable insight into the lives of the people living on Gotland, the largest of Sweden's Baltic islands, in 1000-1400. Guta Lag and Guta Saga: The Law and History of the Gotlanders is the first time that these two important texts have been translated into English and combined in one edition, accompanied by an extensive commentary and histor
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SUBJECT Guta lag. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015043478
Guta saga. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015043483
Guta lag fast
Guta saga fast
Subject Law -- Sweden -- Gotland -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources
Law -- Sweden -- Gotland -- Early works to 1800
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Law
SUBJECT Gotland (Sweden) -- History -- Sources
Gotland (Sweden) -- History -- Early works to 1800
Subject Sweden -- Gotland
Genre/Form Electronic books
Early works
History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Peel, Christine, editor.
ISBN 9781317565253
1317565258