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iron ordeal
iron ordeal n. historical in later use a type of ordeal by fire (see ordeal n. 1) in which an accused person is required to walk a certain distance either holding a heated iron bar or over heated iron objects (usually ploughshares).Quot. 1720 is a translation of quot. lOE.
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lOE Laws of Æðelstan (Rochester) ii. xxiii. §1. 162 Gif hit sy ysenordal, beon ðreo niht, ær man þa hand undo.
1720 J. Johnson tr. King Ethelstan's Laws Eccl. in Coll. Eccl. Laws Church Eng. I. sig. S2v If it be Iron-Ordeal, let it be three Nights before the Hand be undone.
1805 S. Turner tr. J. Thorpe Registrum Roffense in Hist. Anglo-Saxons IV. v. ix. 336 The bishop said they must prove this by the iron ordeal.
1910 New Schaff-Herzog Encycl. Relig. Knowl. VIII. 252 The ordeal was often preceded by a two days' fast on bread and water in the case of the iron ordeal.
2005 N. Blomkvist Discov. of Baltic vi. 356 According to the Östgöta Law the iron ordeal had been abolished by ‘Birger Jarl’.
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