Summary in English The purpose of this study is to investigate the stock of words for PROPERTY IN GENERAL with the subcategories MOVABLE and IMMOVABLE PROPERTYin the medieval Scandinavian laws and to combine that investigation with a linguistic-geographical analysis with the aimof establishing a relative termchronology. The laws investigated are those best suited to this kind of analysis, i.e. the Icelandic Gragas, the Norwegian laws of Frostathing and its Introduction (FrostL and FrostLInl), Gulathing (GulL), Eidsivathing (EidsLKr) and Borgarthing (BorgLKr), the Swedish laws of Västergötland (ÄVgL and YVgL), Östergötland (ÖgL), Gotland (GL), Södermanland (SdL), Uppland (UL), Västmanland (VmL), Dalarna (DL) and Hälsingland (HL) together with the fragment of the Viking Age law of Sunded (SundLVR) and the Danish laws of Skåne (SkL), Sjaelland (VSjLAO, VSjL^ER and VSjLYR and ESjL) and Jylland QL). Each of these laws was the law of an independent region of jurisdiction regardless of its political adherence. The laws are called regional laws in this work. Together, these laws represent the whole Scandinavian territory with just a few exceptions. Besides themI have to some extent made use of the Norwegian National Lawof Magnus Hakonsson (MHLL) and the Swedish National Laws of Magnus Eriksson (MELL) and Kristoffer (KrLL). In Chapter II I present the terminological system and the stock of terms in the laws and attempt to performa linguistic-geographical analysis of the material and to establish a relative termchronology. In a crude type of analysis I find that the two main competitors as words for PROPERTYIN GENERAL and for IMMOVABLE PROPERTY are fé/fx and goz/gops for the former concept and land and jgrd/iorp for the latter concept. There seems to be no doubt that fé/f^e is the older termand that goz/gops is the younger term, and that, likewise, land is the older termand jgrd/iorp is the younger one. It also seems apparent that the exchange of land took place at an earlier time than the exchange of fé/f^e. The picture conveyed by the terminventories indicates that the exchanges started in the south, probably in Denmark, and then progressed northwards. The crude analysis shows that the older pair of terms,/eV/^e for PROPERTY IN GENERAL and land for IMMOVABLE PROPERTY, are both completely dominating in Gragas and there only. Consequently, by all appearances Gragas constitutes a terminological relic. The simple kind of analysis used so far only shows the terms with which the Middle Ages began as opposed to the terms with which the Middle Ages ended. There were other words to be dealt
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