(09-07-2017, 11:42 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.This really looks close to Middle Dutch to me. I'll try the bits I can understand. It seems to concern a certain wedding arrangement where a man marries a woman of lower birth. His inheritance cannot pass to her, but he is allowed to give her a "morgengave", which is part of his property he sets aside for her for after he dies - conditions apply.
The herwede is a sum of money one has to pay related to one's fiefdom, but I'm not sure of the exact legal meaning here.
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Saxon is a real mixture. It's almost readable as old Norse. It doesn't surprise me that it looks close to Middle Dutch because the Normans were "Nor' men" (north men, Scandinavians). There are lots of DNA commonalities between Dutch and Scandinavian in the west and the Danes also settled east across the northern part of Saxony at one point.
A "morgengave" is a northern tradition, a gift given on the morning after a big event (as to a bride). They used the Norwegian/Danish spelling rather than the Swedish. The tradition was brought as far south as Swabia by Scandinavian migrants (I don't know if it went any farther south than this).
"He is ok..." and "dar horet to alle" are very Norse, but then you get "velt" following it in German, rather than "fold" or "verden".
herwede - gift/payment/tribute
and "dele" (del) - part/portion/share of in Norse rather than in German.
It reminds me of the marginalia across the top of the plant page, which has always struck me as a blend of French-Norman, Saxon-German, and Latin.