During recent years, there has been a revival of interest in the early laws of Scandinavia. In this volume, several aspects of this field are presented and discussed, such as the introduction and development in medieval Denmark of the naefnd, a kind of 'jury', which replaced the ordeal. The Law of the Halsingar (Halsingelagen) is analysed and found to comprise multiple layers, a mixture of obviously-old local laws and legal customs, together with new royal decrees, Church laws etc., and with close links with early Norwegian law and legal terminology. In one article the kristindomsbalkr ('Church Law', or 'Ecclesiastical Law Section') of the town law of Trondheim, Norway (the so-called Nidaross Bjarkeyjarrettr) and the provincial law of medieval Trondelag, Frostuingslog are compared. Different approaches to handling violence and homicide involving laymen and clerics in late medieval Norway...
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