Slavery in Germanic Society During the Middle Ages
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296. ^Jastrow, p. 13, n. 5; Geffcken, Lex Sal. , 35, i, and p. 150- 4 GJ)1. , c. 223: "Giallda svena Jja alia er heima ero alnar"; c. 274, 69: "Now a man hires another man's slave, " etc. ; Grimm, R. A. , 343: "Eine ancilla ist der preis fiir pferd, schild, und lanze"; Coulanges, Institutions {U Invasion germanique), p. 82: " Proprietarius servo cujus usufructus ad alium pertinet. " 30 SLAVERY IN GERMANIC SOCIETY pursue him.^ Germanic law, too, admits this right : Aethehtan's Laws, vi. 6, 3: " ...But if the slave stole [himself] away^ . . . . "; Leg. Lang. , Roth. , c. 281: " . . . . The one who gives a fugitive slave food and keeps him more than a day shall pay his value to the master"; and whoever brings back the fugitive may- expect a reward.^ The man that kills the slave of another shall make good the loss by paying the price of the slave. In Swed- ish law this is half the value of a cow or of a horse or 3 marks in money. "* But there are instances of a slave being valued higher. Amira, Vol.
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