In the early part of the (Icelandic) commonwealth, when a man was suspected of theft, a kind of tribunal composed of twelve persons named by him, and twelve by the person whose goods had been stolen, was instituted before the door of his dwelling, and... Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect ... - Side 73 af Jeremiah Sullivan - 1857 - 171 sider Fuld visning -
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