ABSTRACT
This chapter includes the Church Law of Scania and three short royal ordinances are also included. These provincial laws were first written in the first half of the thirteenth century and were in force until 1683, when they were replaced by a national law. The laws, preserved in over 100 separate manuscripts, are the first extended texts in Danish and represent a first attempt to create a Danish legal language. If a man has children with both his lawful wife and a concubine, and if he wishes to give something to his children by the concubine, then he shall go to the provincial assembly and publicly declare that they are his children, and give them what he will. If a man wounds another man while the king is in the province, he shall pay for the wound as is law, and forty marks to the king and forty marks to the man who received the wound, for breaking the peace.
