[299] Synod. S. Patricii ann. 456, c. 8.
[300] Anomalous Laws, Book XIV. chap. xiii. § 4 (Owen II. 623).
[301] Patetta, Le Ordalie, p. 156.
[302] Königswarter, op. cit. p. 224; Patetta, pp. 158 sqq.; Eph. Gerhardi Tract. Jurid. de Judic. Duellico, c. ii. § 12.
[303] Saxon. Grammat. Hist. Dan. Lib. V.
[304] Islands Landnamabok, III. vii.; V. xii. xiii. See also II. vi. and xiii.
[305] Keyser’s Religion of the Northmen, Pennock’s Translation, p. 245-7.
[306] Tacit. de Mor. Germ. X. Du Cange refers to a passage of Paterculus as proving the existence of the judicial duel among the Germans (Lib. II. cap. 118), but it seems to me only to refer to the law of the strongest.
[307] Si tamen non potuerit adprobare ... et postea, si ausus fuerit, pugnet.—Leyden MS.—Capit. Extravagant. No. xxviii. of Pardessus.
[308] Gregor. Turon. Hist. Franc. Lib. VII. c. xiv.; Lib. X. c. x.—Aimoini Lib. IV. c. ii.