Note 555 — Chapter VI · REGULATIONS OF THE JUDICIAL COMBAT.
Reading edition
Schlegel Comment. ad Grágás § 31.—Grágás sect. VIII. cap. 105. A fanciful etymologist might trace to this custom the modern phrase of “posting a coward.”
Reading edition
Schlegel Comment. ad Grágás § 31.—Grágás sect. VIII. cap. 105. A fanciful etymologist might trace to this custom the modern phrase of “posting a coward.”