Next with regard to the payment of the wergeld in the case of the slayer being a Norman or a stranger:—
Si quis hujusmodi faciat homicidium, parentes ejus tantum were reddant, quantum pro ea reciperent, si occideretur.
(8) If any one commit homicide of this kind let his parentes pay so much wergeld as they would have received if he [the slayer] had been killed.
Si ex parte patris parentes habeat, et ex parte matris non habeat, et hominem occideret, reddant pertinentes ei quantum de ejus interfeccione reciperent, i. duas partes weregildi sui.
(9) If he [the slayer] have parentes on his father’s side and not on his mother’s and kills a man, they pay for him as much as they would have received had he been killed, i.e. two thirds of the wergeld.
Si quis autem paterna cognacione carens male pugnet ut hominem occidat, si tunc cognacionem maternam habeat, reddat ipsa terciam partem were, terciam congildones, pro tercia fugiat.
(10) If any one who has no paternal relations shall fight so wrongly as to kill a man and if he has maternal relations they shall pay one-third of the wer, the congildones one-third, and for the other third let him flee.
Si nec maternam cognacionem habeat, reddant congildones dimidiam weram, pro dimidia fugiat vel componat.
If he has no maternal relations the congildones shall pay half, and for half he shall flee or pay.
Si quis occidatur ejusmodi secundum legem pristinam, si parentela careat, reddatur dimidium regi, dimidium congildonibus.