Thank you for the links. I am especially
interested in the dog rules as I am trying
to research the history of Shetland Sheepdogs.


--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Patricia"
<originalpatricia@...> wrote:

>
> Great !! LN you found more than I did - I'll go back to Googling
> Patricia
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: llama_nom
> To: norse_course@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 6:56 PM
> Subject: [norse_course] Re: Sheep letter?
>
>
>
> 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.faroestamps.fo/?side=a78b24d27844bc4ec0b8bb7cee4034f5
> http://www.faroestamps.fo/?side=e04885015070829f2b120ab94925df06
>
> 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
>