Danske Lov is the title of a Danish statute book from 1683 that previously formed the basis for the Danish legislation. Even though it was mainly a compilation of older, regional laws, it took seven different commissions over several decades under two different monarchs to put the Code together. In 1687, Norway received its Norwegian Code, which in form and content is about identical to the Danish Code. The Danish Code has been translated into English, Latin, German and Russian.
Christian V of Denmark
Marble bust of Christian V of Denmark by Christian Nerger, 1680s, National Museum in Warsaw
Scanian law is the oldest Danish provincial law and one of the first Nordic provincial laws to be written down. It was used in the geographic region of Danish Skåneland, which at the time included Scania, Halland, Blekinge and the island of Bornholm. It was also used for a short period on the island of Zealand. According to some scholars, the Scanian Law was first set down between 1202 and 1216, around the same time it was translated into Latin by the Danish Archbishop Anders Sunesøn.
The oldest known vernacular manuscript (B 74) of the Scanian Law and the Scanian Ecclesiastical Law, dated to c. 1250, presently stored at the Royal Library of Sweden, Stockholm.
AM 37 4to, Anders Sunesøn's version of the Scanian Law and Scanian Ecclesiastical Law, with the "skåningestrofe" in the bottom margin.
Codex Runicus, a vellum manuscript from c. 1300 written entirely in runes, containing one of the oldest and best preserved texts of the Scanian Law and the oldest musical notation found in Scandinavia.
Last phrase of Codex Runicus, which differs from the Latin letter version. It's a melody, which for decades has been used by Danmarks Radio as a pause signal
