Asega-bôk

The Asegabuch (First Rüstringer handwriting) is a collection of Old Frisian law from the 13th to the 15th century.

It is a valuable testimony Old Frisian nationality, the law book of Rüstringer, named after the " Asega ," the Frisian judge who was committed when he took office at the law.

The Frisians had several general laws, dating back to the Germanic period and were all over Friesland of the Weser estuary up to the Zuiderzee. There were in some Frisian landscapes still more special rights. In Rüstringen, the former located on both sides of today's Jade Bay landscape, were, for example, the Rüstringer Küren that Bußtaxen, legal statutes, and the send right. All of these laws formed the content of the Rüstringer country right or Asegabuches. There remained only in a single copy, which is located in Oldenburg in Lower Saxony State Archives, preserved. However, this document is only a custom built in 1300 copy of an older manuscript.

The Asegabuch is of immense value for research into the early history of the Frisian countryside. The following excerpts and their translations into High German give a small impression of the Old Frisian language: