Birk (market place)

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Birk was an Old Norse word that supposedly meant a market place. In the Middle Ages and possible even earlier, a birk had its own special legal system known as "Bjärköarätt" in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The Latin name "Birca" of a Viking Age Swedish town was possibly just a latinicised word for birk.

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