Returning, then, to the original wergeld of the hauld without these additions, we have seen that it consisted of two sets of payments, bauga payments and upnám payments, and possibly the small addition of those of more distant relations.
Now in the Gulathing law there are two other descriptions of the amount of the bauga payment, and it will be useful to examine them.
Another statement makes the bauga men pay 18 marks.
The first is to be found in clauses 179 and 180.
In clause 179 the payment for cutting off a hand or foot and for striking out an eye is said to be a half ‘giöld,’ and it is added:—
En ef allt er af einum manni höggvit hönd oc fótr, þá er sá verri livande en dauðr; scal giallda sem dauðr sé.
But if both hand and foot be cut off the same man, he is worse living than dead, and is to be paid for as if he were dead.
And then in the next clause, under the heading ‘About Giöld,’ is the following:—
Nú ero giölld töld í Gula; giallda haulld xviii mörcom lögeyris. Nú scolo þeðan giölld vaxa oc svá þverra sem rétter aðrer.
Now shall be told payments in Gula. A hauld shall be paid for with 18 marks of lawful aurar. Starting from this, the payments shall increase or decrease as other retts.