Re: Njal 56 part 2 - - Grace's translation

From: llama_nom
Message: 8128
Date: 2007-04-21

--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, "Fred and Grace Hatton"
<hatton@...> wrote:
>
> (the verdict seems to be coming before the
trial!)

Well, that's one way to simplify the legal system... MM & HP have a
note saying, as Patricia points out, that it was the job of this
"jury" (kviðdómr) not to give a verdict of guilty or innocent, but to
decide whether there was a case to answer, and whether it had been
properly presented according to the law.

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