Note 1470 — Chapter X · THE LIBERTY OF CHOICE.
Reading edition
Nordström, ‘Svenska samhälls-författningens historia,’ vol. ii. pp. 15, et seq. Wilda, loc. cit. p. 803. Weinhold, ‘Deutsche Frauen,’ vol. i. p. 304. According to Saxo Grammaticus (‘Historia Danica,’ book v. vol. i. p. 186), a woman was allowed to dispose of her own hand before the days of King Frotho.