Nordic Lexicon

stokker (OSw) stok (ODan) stukkr (OGu) stokkr (ON) noun

Literally ‘log’ appearing in contexts such as legal and illegal felling of trees, including risk of injury or death in the process; the right to claim bees, described in particular detail in some Danish laws; as a boundary marker; and as an implement of detention or penalty through public humiliation or corporal punishment (i.e. a pillory). The construction and use of the latter was not specified, but it may have been vertical or horizontal with or without holes or irons for neck, hands or feet, and it is unclear if the stokker referring to a chopping block for mutilations (ODan JyL, OSw HL, UL, VmL) also denoted such a device. Temporary detention in a stokker of certain criminals was allowed (ODan JyL, OSw YVgL, SdmL, ÖgL), but illegal use was severely punished. It was used for punishment in cases of adultery (OGu GL), theft (OSw YVgL) and murder (OSw ÖgL) and in ODan SkL it appeared in conjunction with certain ordeals. It is generally not specified where the stokker was placed or who was to perform the punishments assumed to be associated with it, such as flogging or locking into it.

bee-hive ODan ESjL 3
bollard OGu GL A 36
pillar OSw UL Blb
stake ODan JyL 2
stock (1) ODan JyL 2
ONorw GuL Mhb
OSw HL Mb
OSw ÖgL Eb
OSw YVgL Add
stocks OGu GL A 20a
OSw MESt Bb Rb Eb SmbI Tb Dob
stump OSw KrL Eb
OSw MEL Eb
OSw UL Kgb, Mb, Blb
OSw VmL Kgb, Mb
trap OSw KrL Bb
OSw MEL Bb
trunk OSw UL Blb
Expressions:

band ok stok (ODan)

ropes and iron ODan SkL 138

slaghin widher stukkin (OSw)

put into the stocks OSw MESt Bb