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Compensating Body and Honor: The Old Frisian Compensation Tariffs

Han Nijdam · In Medicine and the Law in the Middle Ages (Brill), pp. 23–57 · 2014

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Article
Author
Han Nijdam
Identifier
DOI 10.1163/9789004269118_003
Accessed
2026-09-01
Reliability notes
Replaces an earlier citation ('Indigenous or Universal?', said to be in How Nordic are the Nordic Medieval Laws?) that could not be confirmed.

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EstablishedDetailed compensation tariffs for wounds and killings, scaled to the injury and status, allowed Frisian kin groups to settle conflicts without a central authority.