It then introduces quite another element, viz. the tryggva-kaup (truce-buying).
Nú scolo fylgia tvau tryggva kaup baugi hverium.
Two tryggva-kaup shall go with every baug.
hvert scal eyrir oc fimtungr eyris tryggva kaup.
Each tryggva-kaup shall be 1⅕ ore.
En tryggva kaup scal fara bauga manna í mellom.
Tryggva-kaup shall go between bauga-men.
In the next clause it is explained that this ‘peace-price’ (sættar-kaup) is paid when the kinsmen come together to make peace, and that three marks are also paid as skógar-kaup—‘forest price,’ i.e. payment to release the slayer from being a skógar-maðr, or outlaw living in the forest.
The slayer pays a baug to the son of the dead, and two truce-prices, one to the brother and the other to the ‘brœðrung’ of the dead. And the slayer’s brother pays a baug to the brother of the slain and again two truce-prices, one to the son of the slain and the other to the brœðrung of the slain. And the brœðrung of the slayer pays a baug to the brœðrung of the slain and again two ‘truce-prices,’ one to the son and the other to the brother of the slain. All this is for peace-buying (sættar-kaup) when the kinsmen are met together to make peace.
Then, in clause 245, the women’s gifts are described. The slayer, his mother, his daughter, and his wife each give a gift of 1⅕ ore to the wife, mother, and daughter of the slain—making twelve gifts. The sister of the slayer gives a half gift to the sister, wife, daughter, and mother of the slain (two gifts), and the slayer, his mother, wife, and daughter, each give a half gift to the sister of the slain, making the number of women’s gifts sixteen in all.