Skåneland
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Skåneland is a region on the southern Scandinavian Peninsula. It includes the Swedish provinces of Blekinge, Halland, and Scania. The Danish island of Bornholm is traditionally also included. Skånelan
Anders Sunesøn's 13th-century version of the Scanian Law and Church Law, containing a comment in the margin called the "Skaaningestrof" (the Scanian stanza): "Hauí that skanunga ærliki mææn toco vithar oræt aldrigh æn." (Let it be known that Scanians are honorable men who have never tolerated injustice.)
Painting by Swedish-German artist Johan Philip Lemke of the 1676 Battle of Lund during the Scanian War, the bloodiest battle ever fought between Denmark and Sweden
Gustaf Otto Stenbock, Swedish field marshal
Scanian Law
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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 Sca
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.
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.