Bab 226: The Declared Holmgang

"If someone speaks insults to another man ("You're not the like of a man, and not a man in your chest!" – "I'm a man unlike you!"), they shall meet where three roads meet.

If he who has spoken comes and not the insulted one, then he shall be as he's been called: no right to swear oaths, no right to bear witness, may it concern man or woman.

If the insulted one comes and not he who has spoken, then he shall cry "Niðingr!" three times and make a mark in the ground, and he is worse who spoke what he dared not keep.

Now both meet fully armed: if the insulted one falls, the compensation is half a weregild; if he who has spoken falls, insults are the worst, the tongue the head's bane, he shall lie in a field of no compensation." -Västergötland, Sweden 13th Century law

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