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82 THE LAW OF THE WESTGOTHS.
county is entitled to eight örtugs for each part — i. e. that lie* open —. And
the fence about the church shall always be in perfect condition both winter
and summer.
14.
A child needs baptism, a man the Lord’s supper, the child shall be baptized
before the man is given the Lord’s supper.
Someone needs the extreme unction, another wants to commune, then
shall the man wanting communion be attended to before the one wanting the
extreme unction.
1. A child does not receive baptism, some one not the Lord’s supper, or
the extreme unction. Does the priest lack valid reasons for not attending to
them, then he is liable to a fine of three marks to the bishop and three marks
to the plaintiff. 1)
1) Saksökhenden. En or n is the definite article suffix. This definite article
is peculiar to the Scandinavian languages. It is seldom found in old Icelandic
literature, particularly the Eddas. Even in Old Swedish it was used most
sparingly. In the main portion of V. G. L. I., that is the portion that goes
before L. R. it occurs only nineteen times, while in the t> L. it appears eight
times, and in the Br nineteen times, just as many times as in the whole main
portion of the law, which is more than twenty times as large.
From this the conclusion can be drawn, that the definite suffixed article,
so common and so necessary in the Scandinavian languages of to-day, did not
appear before the eleventh century. Its use grew quite rapidly, however, and
as early as the thirteenth century, it had become a necessary part of the
language in order to express exact thought. This article appears in the following
words in this law viz:
saksökhenden..................ac. sing............. KkB. 14:1
præstins..........................gen. " ............. " 20: 1
ættin...............................nom." ............. Md. 1: 4. 5
sakinæ............................ac. " ............. " 5: 6
Saksökæn....................... " " ............. " 5:7
banæn............................. " " ..........................14:1
saksökæn........................nom." ............. B. B. 75: —
mannin............................ac. " ............. " 9: —
bono................................dat. " ............. Æ. B. 5: —
arwanum........................ " " ............. " 24: —
næmdin........................... " " ............. G. B. 5:1
pavæns...........................gen. " ............. " 8: 1
pavanum........................dat. " ............. " 8:1
sunnudaghin...................ac. " ............ G. B. 9: —
skyldinæ......................... " " ............ R B. 7: —
værpit............................. " " ............ I. B. 4: —
bondin.............................nom." ............ P. B. 5: 1
skapæn...........................ac. " ............ F. S. 5:1
lekærin............................nom." ............ L. R.
kvighuna.........................ac. " ............ L. R.
rikiennæ..........................^en. plur........... L. M.
pridiungin.......................ac. sing............. pl.
fæmtungin...................... " " ............ "
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