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The Danish History
Books I-IX

BOOK FIVE
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Also, he appointed that it was lawful to claim as much of another man's food for provision as would suffice for a single supper.

If anyone exceeded this measure in his takings, he was to be held guilty of theft.

Now, a thief (so he enacted) was to be hung up with a sword passed through his sinews, with a wolf fastened by his side, so that the wicked man might look like the savage beast, both being punished alike.

He also had the same penalty extended to accomplices in thefts.

Here he passed seven most happy years of peace, begetting a son Alf and a daughter Eyfura.
It chanced that in these days Arngrim, a champion of Sweden, who had challenged, attacked, and slain Skalk the Skanian because he had once robbed him of a vessel, came to Frode.


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