The amounts thus stated add up as follows:—
| Baug payments | 12 | marks | 4 | ores |
| 6 truce payments | — | 7⅕ | ” | |
| Forest price | 3 | ” | — | |
| 16 women’s gifts | 2 | ” | 3⅕ | ” |
| 18 | marks | 6⅖ | ores |
The amount aimed at seems to be 18 marks (the upnám payments being 9 marks), and yet the total is stated as follows:—
Now with baugar and with tryggvakaup and skógar-kaup and women’s gifts it is 20 marks and 2⅖ ores.
Absolute accuracy need not be expected, but there must be a reason for the difference between eighteen and twenty marks—between the detailed payments and the total—and it is difficult to suggest any other than the one already mentioned.
The total amount of the bauga payments seems to be the same in this as in the other statement, but a new element is introduced with an obvious and interesting object.
The bauga-men, as before, consist of three groups. The slayer pays the baug to the son of the slain and appeases the other two groups by payment to each of them of a truce-price, so that to all the three bauga groups of the relations of the slain he has acknowledged his wrong and desire to make composition. And so in each case the representative of the other two groups of slayer’s relations pay the baug to the corresponding group of the relatives of the slain and a truce-price to the other two, so that no relation of the slain could after this point to any individual as not having joined in the payment to himself or his group.
The women most deeply concerned on both sides are also present at the gathering. And each of those connected with the slayer is prepared with her gift of 1⅕ ore for the corresponding relative of the person slain.
Women’s gifts were included in the bauga payments in the other statement also.