Landslǫg Magnúss Hákonarsonar | Magnus Lagabøtes landslov

fyrir konungi ok karli drǽpir ok dauða verðir, hvar sem þeir verða staddir.

before king and commoner, may be killed and deserve death, wherever they are found.

Um óbótamál capitulus

On óbótamál [crimes that cannot be atoned for with a fine]. Chapter

En þeir er líf sitt láta fyrir þýfsku

And those who lose their lives on account of theft

sakir eða útilegu, hvárt sem þeir rǽna á skipum eða á landi,

or brigandage, whether they rob on ships or on land,

ok svá fyrir morð ok fordǽðuskap, fyrir spár ok útisetur, at vekja

and likewise for murder and witchcraft, for soothsaying and útisetur [sitting out at night], to wake

troll upp, at fremja með því heiðni; ok svá þeir menn sem gerask flugumenn

up trolls, to practise heathenism by it; and likewise those men who become hired assassins

til þess at drepa þá menn sem þeir eiga engar sakir við, ok

to kill men with whom they have no quarrel, and

taka fé til, nema konungs umboðsmaðr láti refsa til landhreinsanar

take money for it, unless the king's officer has [them] punished to cleanse the land