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T HB LAW OF THE WE8TGOTH8.
7. Kills someone another man’s slave, pay for him a fine or three marks,
if he can not prove him worth four.
Then he shall pay accordingly. No one has any right in that case except
the plaintiff.
6.
Kills some one somebody and is he then killed over the feet of him, whom
he killed, lie on his deed. Pay no fine either to the king or to the country.
7.
Does an insane man kill some one, runs away, pay for him with nine
marks.
8.
Some one catches both thief and the stolen property, has he stolen to the
value of two öre, or more than two öre, bind his hands on his back and bring
him to the thing. Let two men testify against him, that he is thief to the
theft and prove it then with a twelfth-oath. Let hirn then be judged liable to
beheading and hanging to turi and to tar i) without rights as to heir and to
plaintiff.
Someone is robbed of his property, does he pursue, thief resists, can he not
get his property back before he kills the thief, then he shall bring complaint
against the dead and judge him without rights at the thing.
9.
Goes someone to another’s house, attacks him there. Does he, who lives
there, kill him so, that he falls away from the house corner, accuse the dead>
judge him without rights at the thing.
10.
If someone becomes 2) a forest thief 8), lies in the woods and robs, and
someone kills him in selfdefence, bring complaint against the dead, and judge
him without rights at the thing.
1) Til torfs ok til tiæru: To turi and to tar. This punishment was carried
out thus: The thief’s head was shaved, smeared with tar, and strewn with
feathers, whereupon he ran the gauntlet, while the people threw earth, or
whatsoever they got hold of, at him.
2) Geers: Makes himself. One of the reflexive verbs found in this law.
They are: givis, gives himself; giftis, gyptis, marries himself; gærs, makes
himself; kallæs, calls himself, lægs, lays himself; röres, moves himself,
appearing in one form or another seventeen times; stiols, moves or gets by stealth.
8)Löfvirkingær also read lösvittingær: A forest thief, a fool. The
manuscript is not plain, but the first reading, forest thief; suits the context best.
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