baugband (OGu) noun

A strap or rope fastened around the wrist (baugliþer) (see baugliþr) of a captured felon, in particular a slave accused of theft. It could have been simply a type of restraining handcuff, or else a form of minor torture. This latter theory is supported partly by the fact that torture is specifically mentioned just previously in the text, and partly by the fact that the accuser who applied the baugband had to pay compensation if there was no material evidence to implicate the slave upon whom they were inflicted, whether he was found to be innocent or confessed. The word occurs only in the B-text of GL, the synonym ærmaband (q.v.) being used elsewhere in the mainland Swedish laws.

wristband OGu GL Add. 8 (B 55) Refs:

Peel 2015, 198–99 note to Addition 8/18; Schlyter 1877, s.v. baugband; SL GL, 284 note 10