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Students of Old Swedish have expended much labor and great learning in
order to give us a perfect text of this and the other laws. The translation
here presented is made from the latest and best texta obtainable, the editions
of Schlyter, Schwartz-Noreen and Herman Vendell having been used. Due
attention has also been paid to lectures delivered on the subject by Dr. J. S.
Carlson, Professor of the Scandinavian languages and literatures at the
University of Minnesota.
LITERARY PECULIARITIES OF THE LAW OF THE WESTGOTHS.
Rhymes and remnants of verses abound in this law, but it is difficult to
determine, which words rhyme by accident or by intentional arrangement.
The original short rhymes have been so interwoven into the prosaic fabric of
the law, that many rhymes have been lost or the words interchanged in such
a manner, that they have lost their poetical character. But there are many
left intact, and by analogy it is in many instances possible to reconstruct the
original "flokbr" or stanza. Schlyter, Rydquist, Richert, Lind and Otman
have shown that many remnants of poetry can be detected. Even complete
verses and stanzas have been found, composed either in kviSuhattr or
lioSa-hattr. These help us not only to determine the original nuclei of the law, but
also to learn the sound and quality of the letters at the time when the law
was compiled,and thus aid us in the study of the development of the language.
The following extracts, taken untranslated from the text, may serve as
examples of rhymes and poetic expressions.
| Words Where the First Soundns Rhyme. | |
| 1. Vowel rhymes. | |
| arva ok aptimælændæ | Md. 1: 3. |
| arvæbot-ættærbot | Md. 1: 4. |
| at arvi ok at uiltu | I. B. 2: 1. |
| asikkia eldær | F. B. 6. |
| axul ællær andurstang | F. S. 2: 3. |
| en annan | Kk. B. 17. |
| eit annat | Md. 13: 1. |
| iak a ok þu iki | I. B. 2: 1. |
| iak tok iorp þæssæ | I. B. 2: 1. |
| od ok æg | Md. 1: 2. |
| þaen a otær ær or a takær | F. B. 7: 1. |
| undirviþ — aldinviþ | F. S. 2: 1. |
| þæt skal e ugilt varæ | L. R. |
| öre firi ekiu | F. S. 3. |
| öxe ællær öknöte | F. S. 2: 2. |
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