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28–30. The beginning of the Proverbia Wiponis, minus “Audiat rex quod
præcipit lex”; the Proverbia continue below, items 52, 58–9, 62–
69, 71–99 and 101–110.52
34. From Eindriða þáttr ilbreiðs in Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta.53
35. Also found in Gottskálk Jónsson’s miscellany, British Library Add.
MS. 11242, 36r.
36. Also found in Gottskálk Jónsson’s miscellany, British Library Add.
MS. 11242, 66v.
38. Though this is arranged as a single item here, the two sentences are
not consecutive in their likely source and appear here out of order.
The first is originally from the older Frostaþingslǫg, section 1,
chapter 6 (“At lögum se land várt bygt”), appearing also in chapter
3 of the þingfarabálkr of Járnsíða; in both those texts it follows
immediately from the more famous “með lögum skal land vort byg-
gja...”. The second sentence is from slightly earlier in the Járnsíða
þingfarabálkr, chapter 2.54
40. Evidently a formulation for closing a prosecution and allowing the
defence to begin. Though I have not been able to find this exact
wording elsewhere, a similar formula is found, for example, in Njáls
saga c. 142: “nú eru ǫll sóknargǫgn fram komin, þau er sǫkinni eigu
at fylgja at lǫgum”.55
41. From the older Frostaþingslǫg, section 1, chapter 3 (“Enn um sið-
semi á Frostoþingi”); also occurs in Magnús lagabœtir Hákonarson’s
Norwegian landslǫg, section 1, chapter 3 (“Logmaðr skal lata vebond
gera”).56
43. Proverb of unknown origin, although a variant (“Qui male narrat,
nihil impetrat”) is found in a sermon by the German theologian
Thomas a Kempis (c. 1380–1471).57
52 Cf. PL 142, col. 1259.
53 Cf. Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar en mesta, vol. 2, Editiones Arnamagnæanæ, series A, 2, ed. by
Ólafur Halldórsson (Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, 1961), 217.
54 Cf. NGL 1, 128; Jrn, 5; and Jrn, 2–3.
55 Brennu-Njáls saga, Íslenzk fornrit 12, ed. by Einar Ól. Sveinsson (Reykjavík: Hið íslenzka
fornritafélag, 1954), 391.
56 Cf. NGL 1, 128 and NGL 2, 14–15.
57 Mia Korpiola, “Medieval Iconography of Justice in a European Periphery: The Case of
Sweden, ca. 1250–1550,” The Art of Law. Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law and
Justice in Context, from the Middle Ages to the First World War, Ius Gentium: Comparative
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