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Catholic vs. pagan hybrid laws in south-eastern Norway from approx. 1150 AD
>Here begins our laws, and we shall bend towards the east
>and give ourselves to Christ, show esteem towards churches and priests.
>Every child born in this home [nation] shall be raised, Christened,
>and be carried to church, given that the child is not orkumbl [malformed, marked].
>If a mother cannot feed her child,
>and heels point in toes direction, and toes in heels,
>and the neck is on the chest,
>and the calves are on the shins,
>the eyes in the neck,
>or has the head of a dog
>That child shall be carried to forvé [heathen holy site] and røys [rocky desolate],
>where man nor cattle travel over, which is the evils/devils forvé.
>It is exigent for all, that those who cannot self-nurture should become adult.
>Those shall be carried to church, primesigned [rite for denouncing the heathen Gods],
>laid in front of the church door, and the closest relative shall watch over it until its spirit has passed out of it.
>Then it shall be buried in the graveyard and its soul prayed upon as best one can do,
>let it come to that hope as God wills.
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