Gutalagen

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Gutalagen is a medieval legal code from the island of Gotland, written in Old Gutnish and detailing the laws and customs of its inhabitants.

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Surface form Occurrences
Gutamål 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Gotlandic provincial law
law code
medieval legal code
appliesToTerritory Gotland
country Sweden
culture Gutnish culture
describes penalties for legal offences
procedures for dispute settlement
regulation of trade and shipping
relations between Gotlanders and foreign merchants
rights and duties of free farmers
role of the thing assembly
social structure of medieval Gotland
follows Germanic customary law
genre law code
hasAlternativeName Gutland law
hasForm manuscript text
hasHistoricalPeriod Middle Ages
hasLanguage Old Gutnish
North Germanic languages
surface form: Old Norse language group
hasPart provisions on church and clergy
provisions on fines and compensation
provisions on homicide
provisions on inheritance
provisions on land ownership
provisions on marriage and family
provisions on oaths and witnesses
provisions on theft
provisions on thing assemblies
hasSignificance important source for medieval Scandinavian legal history
important source for the history of Gotland
important source for the study of Old Gutnish
legalStatus historical legal code
legalSystem medieval Scandinavian law
mainSubject criminal law
customary law
inheritance law
laws and customs of Gotland
marriage law
procedural law
property law
originatesFrom island of Gotland
partOf Swedish provincial laws
relatedTo Gutasaga
Gutnish
surface form: Gutnish people

Swedish medieval provincial laws
writtenInScript Latin alphabet

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Gutasaga associatedWith Gutalagen
Old Gutnish attestedIn Gutalagen
Gutnish hasAlternativeName Gutalagen
this entity surface form: Gutamål
Old Gutnish hasNotableText Gutalagen