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The oldest known copy of the Jutland Code (Jyske Lov) – or Codex Holmiensis – may soon be on its way back to Denmark from Sweden if negotiations between Swedish and Danish museum authorities and ministries of culture prove successful.
Signed in 1241 by the Danish King Valdemar II, the codex determined laws to be adhered to in Funen and Jutland and down to the Eider River. The codex preamble states: “With law shall the nation be built”, a phrase visible to this day above the Copenhagen District Courthouse.
