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The English>Nordic section of the LMNL is a mirror of the Nordic>English section. It is intended as a limited index to give users an overview of the range of medieval terms covered by an individual English equivalent. For instance, the English equivalent ‘fine’ could represent ON áfang, OGu alagh and OSw bot as well as several similar terms.

Six appendices have been supplied by the editors to provide information about groups of terms clustering around general medieval Nordic legal concepts. They are intended to give a more meaningful description of the terms together than would be allowed by articles distributed throughout the lexicon. These appendices cover:


 * Appendix A: Administrative and judicial divisions
 * Appendix B: Agriculture and forestry
 * Appendix C: Borders, boundaries and boundary markers
 * Appendix D: Currency and weights & measures
 * Appendix E: Kinship
 * Appendix F: Calendar of Church Feast and Fast Days

A bibliography has also been appended. It is intended to serve as a selective list of primary and secondary works treating the legal texts covered by the LMNL. An emphasis has been placed on recent titles to demonstrate how research has progressed since the publication of the Kulturhistorisk leksikon. Many of the works cited are those which informed the explanatory articles throughout the LMNL.

Many abbreviations for individual sections or books in the laws, particularly Swedish laws, refer to accepted modern titles rather than to the medieval ones, which were often lacking. For example, the abbreviation Rb stands for Sw Rättegångsbalken, rather than OSw þingmalabalker (‘The Legal Procedure Section’ in English).