Vogelfrei

The word outlaw, or wolf -free, designated according to the current term use someone about whom the penalty has been imposed eight. However, this negative meaning only starts in the 16th century. She then generally prevailed over the baroque poetry and the explanation in German Grammar Jacob Grimm (1819 ).

Then and now

Originally the word meant "outlaws " only " free as a bird, unbound". Thus the word in the older sources will be used. Luther and Zwingli used the word still in its original meaning.

Much later there was the link with the ostracism. They resulted from the formulas:

" As you have been legally granted to a judgment and to the murder of eight, so I nim your physical and well out of the fride and thu it in the unfrid and announce to you redeeming and any rights and announce to you the birds free in the air and the animals in the forest and the vian in the water and solt on any road or in any mundtat who keizer gefreiet or Künig, nindert fride still have escort; ... "

And

" His physical should be free and allows people and all animals, the birds in the air, the vian in the water, so that no one can commit against him a criminal, which he must atone "

This ban was also connected that to convicted persons have been granted a dwelling. In case of death the body was not buried, but left to the birds and wolves.

The current concept is there not cause to search for the dissemination of pejorative meaning, but in the language of the mercenaries and soldiers of that time. This is also occurring in this context, the loan word " price" ( italian presa, French prize ), here synonymous with the word " booty ". Country Malicious people will " abandoned and bird frey " explained.