The "sheep letter" contains laws for sheep farmers which were in
force
in the Faroe Islands during the middle ages. I'm not sure if
there's
an English tanslation anywhere online, but there are images of
the
text as it appears in a 14th century manuscript (the original
goes
back to 1298). That's the link Patricia found:
http://commons. wikimedia. org/wiki/ Sheep_Letter
Also
available here:
http://laurentius. lub.lu.se/ volumes/Mh_ 15/14.html
Some
information in English:
http://www.faroesta mps.fo/?side= a78b24d27844bc4e c0b8bb7cee4034f5
http://www.faroesta mps.fo/?side= e04885015070829f 2b120ab94925df06
I
couldn't find an English Wikipedia entry on "sheep letter" (apart
from the
manuscript images), but there is a quite detailed German one:
http://de.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Schafsbrief
'seyðarbræfið'
gets lots of hits on Google, so there might be some
more detailed
information out there. It even came up with something
from the norse_course
archives.
Llama Nom
--- In norse_course@ yahoogroups. com,
"Fred and Grace Hatton"
<hatton@...> wrote:
>
> What is
the sheep letter about?? Is it online in the original?
> Grace
>
Fred and Grace Hatton
> Hawley Pa