''Norðleoda laga'' is a set of laws apparently pertaining to the

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...

kingdom of

Northumbria Northumbria () was an early medieval Heptarchy, kingdom in what is now Northern England and Scottish Lowlands, South Scotland. The name derives from the Old English meaning "the people or province north of the Humber", as opposed to the Sout ...

. Mention of a Northumbrian king suggests that the text originates before the mid-tenth century, when Northumbria ceased to be an independent kingdom. The text comprises a list of the wergelds payable on the killing of people of different social statuses, with the following values:

Editions and translations

* Liebermann, F. (ed.), ''Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen'', 3 vols (Halle a. S.: Niemeyer, 1903–16), I 458–60. * Monk, Chris (ed. and trans.),
Norðleoda Laga (‘Laws of the Northumbrians’), Textus Roffensis, ff. 93v-94r
' (Rochester: Rochester Cathedral Research Guild, 2018)

References

Anglo-Saxon law {{law-stub