thjuvsmærke (ODan) noun

A thief could be marked by losing the nose or an ear or being branded or flogged, which also allowed the identification of repeat offenders. The concept, albeit not the word, also appears in other ODan as well as in OIce, ONorw and OSw laws.

thief’s mark ODan JyL 2 Refs:

KLNM s.v.v. kroppsstraff, skamstraff; Tamm and Vogt, eds, 2016, 36, 315