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Categorising Wounds in the
Old Frisian Compensation Tariffs
Han Nijdam
9. Festslek: fiower penningar.
27. Tua are of: tuelef merk.
28. En are of: sex merk.
40. Nose al ofesnithen: en thrimen lif.
45. Oppa thet haud eslein, thettet blot et sinne nosem vtrenne: eider nosterlen thre scillingar.
Lex Frisionum Compensation Tariffs
1 sipido 1 inseptha2 smelido 2 smelinge3 liduwagi 3 lithwei4 wlitivam 4 wlitewemmelse5 si manus abscisa terram
cadens tetigerit 5 gersfel / gersfellich
6 ut nec frigus nec calorem pro vulneris impatientia suffere possit 6 hete and kelde7 ossa de vulnere 7 benis utgong
Embodied Honour or Mund and Were
• 1. Physical Body
• 2. Social Body– Land, House, Siblings, Gold
• 3. Political Body– Wife, Cattle, Servants, Textile, Silver
Types of wounds• 1 slek • 2 blodresne • 3 metedolch• 4 kerf / skredene • 5 inreth /
thruchgungand dolch• 6 benbreke and lithwei• 7 lamethe• 8 gersfel
• 1 simple blow• 2 drawing blood• 3 flesh wound• 4 cut• 5 penetrating wound• 6 damage to bones
and joints• 7 paralysis• 8 amputation