(3) A bishop’s and an ealdorman’s viii thousand thrymsas.
Holdes ⁊ cyninges heah-gerefan iiii þusend þrymsa.
(4) A hold’s and a king’s high-reeve’s iv thousand thrymsas.
Mæsse-þegnes ⁊ woruld-þegnes ii þusend þrymsa.
(5) A mass thane’s and a secular thane’s ii thousand thrymsas.
Ceorles wer-gild is cc. ⁊ lxvi þrim. ꝥ bið ii hund scill be Myrcna lage.
(6) A ceorl’s wergeld is cc and lxvi thrymsas, that is cc scillings by Mercian law.
Put into tabular form these wergelds would be as follows in thrymsas and Wessex and Mercian scillings:—
| Thrymsas | Wessex shillings of 5d. | Mercian shillings of 4d. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| King’s wergeld 15,000, cynebot 15,000 | 30000 | = | 18000 | 22500 |
| Archbishop’s and Ætheling’s | 15000 | = | 9000 | 11250 |
| Bishop’s and Ealdorman’s | 8000 | = | 4800 | 6000 |
| Holdr’s and King’s high-reeve’s | 4000 | = | 2400 | 3000 |
| Mass thane’s and secular thane’s | 2000 | = | 1200 | 1500 |
| Ceorl’s | 266⅔ | = | 160 | 200 |
The ceorl has a twyhynde wergeld in Mercian shillings and the thane a twelve-hynde wergeld in Wessex shillings. There seems to be so far some confusion. But on the whole this reckoning seems to justify the opinion generally held that the Northmen coming as conquerors into Northumbria or the Danelaga had, at the date of these fragments, doubled the wergeld of the hold or hauld as compared with that of the English thane.