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Which objects symbolized land transfers among west Germanic peoples?
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Euric, statue in the Plaza de Oriente, Madrid.
Among west Germanic peoples, the transfer of gewere—the power exercised by an owner over property—required significant formality. Specifically, when land was transferred, it was symbolized by the handing over of a glove or a spear.1