Thanks's for that Mike. Here is the Heþnalagh section of the West
Gautish laws, which talks about duels in response to insults.

http://hem2.passagen.se/peter9/lag/vghedn.html

Givr maþr oquæþins orð manni · þu ær æi mans maki oc eig maþr i brysti
· Ek ær maþr sum þv · þeir skvlv møtaz a þriggia vægha motum · Cumbr
þan orð havr giuit oc þan cumbr eig þer orð havr lutit · þa mvn han
vara svm han heitir · ær eig eiðgangr oc eig vitnisbær huarti firi man
ælla kvnv · Cumbr oc þan orð havr lutit oc eig þan orð havr giuit · þa
opar han þry niþingx op oc markar han a iarþv · þa se han maþr þæss
værri þet talaþi han eig halla þorþi · Nv møtaz þeir baþir mz fullum
vapnvm · Faldr þan orð havr lutit · gildr mz haluum gialdum · Faldr
þan orð havr giuit · Gløpr orða værstr · Tunga houuðbani · Liggi i
vgildum acri ·

If a man gives insulting words to a man -- you are not equal to a man
and not a man in your breast, (and the accused says) I'm (as much) a
man as you -- then they must meet at a meeting of three ways. If the
man comes who has given the words, and the man who received them does
not come, then he will be what he is called. He is not able to give
legal oaths or to act as a legal witness, neither for a man nor a
woman. If he who received the words comes, but not the one who gave
them, then he (the one who came) shall give a nithing's shout and make
a mark on the earth. Then let him (the one who didn't come) be (so
much) the worse a man who said what he did not dare to stick to. Now
if they both meet with a full set if weapons, and the one who received
the words falls, let him be paid for with a half wergild, but if the
one who uttered the words falls -- "the crime of words (is) worst; the
tongue is the death of the head" -- let him lie in the unatoned field
(i.e. let him lie with no compensation paid to his kin).

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, mike garcia <exavierstud@...> wrote:
>
> Heill llama,
>
> Here is a interesting article when the insults was given on how our
kinred
> in the past would of handled an insult or some dispute:
>
> http://www.stavacademy.co.uk/mimir/holmgang.htm
>
> Heill ok vel,
>
> Mike
>
> --- llama_nom <600cell@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > Another article on insults:
> >
> > http://ragnarokr.com/Scholarship/nidsenna.html