ABSTRACT
Compared to the riches of the Swedish and Finnish National Archives, the Danish National Archives appear as poor cousins as far as medieval manuscript fragments are concerned. This chapter deals with the problem of the original provenance of the fragments. The fifteenth-century addition of St Samson would hardly have made sense in any other Danish church than Ringsted Abbey, the mother house of St Samson's in Halsted; presumably the liturgical manuscripts of Halsted itself would have included Samson from the beginning and not as an afterthought. The chapter presents series of important fragments from the early seventeenth-century accounts of Tonder Amt casts interesting light on the origin of the fragments. The content of the fragments is actually the Sachsenspiegel, the compilation of Saxon law written in the thirteenth century by Eike von Repgow, provided with an abbreviated version of the gloss of Johann von Buch and supplemented by other legal texts.
