[162] It is true that in the clauses trebling the amounts for wounds it is not directly stated that the wergelds were also trebled; but the use of the words in Tit. I., ‘in simplo,’ suggests that it may have been so; whilst the facts that the triple payment for the loss, e.g. of the eye, which in the title De Dolg was a half wergeld, would otherwise exceed the full wergeld, and that, in the one case in which in the ‘De Dolg’ the whole wergeld was payable, the amount in the Additio is the treble wergeld, make it almost certain that it was so, otherwise the injury would be paid for at three times the value of a man’s life.
[163] 4608 × 3 = 13824, i.e. 160 solidi of 86·4 wheat-grains. The wergeld of the Island of Gotland was also 3 gold marks or 160 solidi of Merovingian standard. See also on the whole question Dr. Brunner’s article ‘Nobiles und Gemeinfreie der Karolingischen Volksrechte’ in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung &c., vol. xix.
[164] It would exactly equal 200 of the local solidi of two tremisses at a ratio of 1:8, or 160 solidi of 80 wheat-grains instead of 86·4.
[165] Pertz, p. 83.
[166] Pertz, p. 84.
[167] Pertz, p. 34.
[168] Pertz, p. 84.
[169] Pertz, p. 118.
[170] See Du Cange sub voce ‘Pecunia,’ and the cases there mentioned in which the word = pecudes, grex, &c.
[171] See Études sur la Lex dicta Francorum Chamavorum et sur ‘Les Francs du Pays d’Amor,’ par Henri Froidevaux. Paris, 1891, chap. ii.