EN040.26 Regulations
Ott 2025
G. Justice
Regulations and Penalties
40.26 To maintain security, these regulations and penalties have been established:
(Finda’s folk also have regulations and penalties. However, these are not founded on justice but made only to benefit the priests and princes. That is why their cities are constantly full of discord and murder.) [041]
1. If someone is in need and unable to help himself, the maidens must make it known to the aldermen, because it does not befit a proud Frya to do so himself.
2. If someone becomes poor because he is unwilling to work, he must be driven out of the land, as the cowardly and lazy are troublesome and spiteful; therefore, it is needful to fend against them.
3. Every young man ought to seek a bride and, when he is twenty-five, he should have a wife.
4. If someone is twenty-five and without a spouse, everyone must ban him from their homes; the young men must shun him. If he still will not take a spouse, he must be declared dead, so that he leaves the country and cannot cause trouble here.
5. If a man is impotent, he must openly declare that no one has to fear or mistrust him; then he may come or go where he likes.
6. If, after this, he practices fornication, he will have to flee.[1] For, if he does not, he will be left to the vengeance [042] of those he has betrayed, and no one may help him.
7. If someone has some goods and another covets them so much that he lays his hands on them, then he must repay thrice the value. If he steals yet again, he must be exiled to the tin mines. If he so wishes, the person robbed may forgive the thief, but if it happens ever again, no one may grant him freedom.
Notes
- ↑ ‘fornication’ (HORDOM) — lit.: ‘whoredom’.
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In other languages
- DE040.26 Sicherheit2
- ES040.26 Regulaciones
- FS040.26 SETMA
- NL040.26 Veiligheid
- NO040.26 Forordningene
Other English translations
Chapters G, H and J: Sandbach 1876