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The Danish History
Books I-IX

INTRODUCTION
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Nothing more was possible before written wills were introduced by the Christian clergy after the Roman fashion.
STATUTE LAWS.
"Lawgivers" .-- The realm of Custom had already long been curtailed by the conquests of Law when Saxo wrote, and some epochs of the invasion were well remembered, such as Canute's laws.

But the beginnings were dim, and there were simply traditions of good and bad lawyers of the past; such were "Sciold" first of all the arch-king, "Frode" the model lawgiver, "Helge" the tyrant, "Ragnar" the shrewd conqueror.
"Sciold", the patriarch, is made by tradition to fulfil, by abolishing evil customs and making good laws, the ideal of the Saxon and Frankish Coronation oath formula (which may well go back with its two first clauses to heathen days).

His fame is as widely spread.

However, the only law Saxo gives to him has a story to it that he does not plainly tell.

Sciold had a freedman who repaid his master's manumission of him by the ingratitude of attempting his life.


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