Strangeness
Today's strange medieval law: "If someone steals a beaver, then [the thief] is to pay twelve grivnas." Russkaya Pravda, c. 1035

The Russkaya Pravda is sadly lacking in references to trial by combat, but it does have a lot to say about bees. larkvi, check it out: http://web.grinnell.edu/individuals/kaiser/exrp.html .

The Russians were still practicing trial by combat in the eighteenth century. They called it pole. Maybe this is incentive to finally learn how to read Russian.