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In Denmark manddrab (manslaughter) is the term used by the Danish penalty law to describe the act of intentionally killing another person. No distinction between manslaughter and murder exists. The penalty goes from a minimum of five years (six years in the case of regicide ) to imprisonment for life .
The Danelaw ( / ˈdeɪnˌlɔː /, also known as the Danelagh; Danish: Danelagen; Old English: Dena lagu) [3] was the part of England in which the laws of the Danes held sway [4] and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons. The Danelaw contrasts with the West Saxon law and the Mercian law. The term is first recorded in the early 11th century as Dena ...
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Map of main Danish dialect areas. The Danish language has a number of regional and local dialect varieties. These can be divided into the traditional dialects, which differ from modern Standard Danish in both phonology and grammar, and the Danish accents, which are local varieties of the standard language distinguished mostly by pronunciation and local vocabulary colored by traditional dialects.
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Map showing Viking territories and voyages, including the Danelaw. The Danelaw, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle also known as the Danelagh (Old English: Dena lagu; Danish: Danelagen ), is a name given to a part of Great Britain, now northern and eastern England, in which the laws of the "Danes" [1] held predominance over those of the Anglo-Saxons.
Danish is a Germanic language of the North Germanic branch. Other names for this group are the Nordic [14] or Scandinavian languages. Along with Swedish, Danish descends from the Eastern dialects of the Old Norse language; Danish and Swedish are also classified as East Scandinavian or East Nordic languages.
BUYING INTO LAW. The third clause of the Wantage Code compiles five unique legal terms and declares that they shall not be interfered with. Footnote 105 These seem to represent legal processes that were being carried out in the tenth-century Danelaw and three of them are novel to Anglo-Saxon law and the Old English language: the Scandinavian loanwords lahcop, landcop and witword.
