ABSTRACT
Attached to many of the manuscripts of the Law of Scania are a number of appendices of varying age and type. Three of them date to the first half of the thirteenth century and are therefore contemporary with the laws. These three appendices are all royal legislation, and were probably all originally given in Latin. According to the Liber legis Scaniae, not long after Knud VI's Ordinance on Homicide was issued, his brother and successor Valdemar II modified it by a new ordinance. The oldest manuscript where the ordinance is found is from the first half of the fifteenth century, and an additional six manuscripts containing the ordinance are known from that period. The manuscript also includes the Law of Scania, the Church Law and the Book of Succession and Crime, as well as a number of other additions including the Ordinance on Offering Compensation.
