Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Codex Runicus

Codex Runicus

 * Reason:Interesting manuscript
 * Proposed caption:Folio 27r of the Codex Runicus, a vellum manuscript from around the year 1300 containing one of the oldest and best-preserved texts of the Scanian Law. The codex is written in a variant of the younger futhark runic alphabet.  A portion of the text on this page, beginning with the first rubric, or red-lettered text on the third line from the top, reads as follows:
 * ''Særær man annær man mæþæn kunung ær innæn lændæs bøtæ fore sar sum loh æræ :ok kunungi firitiuhu mark ok hinum ær sar fik firitiuhu mark fore friþbrut."
 * (If a man wounds another man while the king is the province he shall pay a fine for the wound in accordance with the law, and 40 marks to the king and 40 marks for breach of the peace to the one who was wounded.)


 * Articles this image appears in:Codex Runicus, Kensington Runestone, Runic alphabet
 * Creator:Original is c. 1300. Uploaded by User:Pia L.  Original at: http://www.hum.ku.dk/ami/am28.html.


 * Support as nominator Spikebrennan 20:40, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: A pity you don't see the edges of the document, as in the other scan on the article page. I'll abstain, waiting for a full scan, which I would support. --Janke | Talk 07:13, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose This is such a cool document, but the quality needs to be better. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 02:02, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

(without prejudice). MER-C 09:14, 22 October 2007 (UTC)