[542]. Eight aurar made a mark.

[543]. Indemnity to be paid in metal rings of silver or gold.

[544]. The reksthegn was a freeman descended from thrall kin, although his family might have been free for several generations. The rétt of the árborinn-madr was 12 aurar, that of the reksthegn one mark. The classes in the two other law districts were probably similar to those above, but it seems that the haulld and bondi were classified as one.

[545]. The laws on wounds are so minute and numerous that it is not possible to give them in full. Cf. also Gulath., 179–215; Frostath., iv. 42–53.

[546]. N. G. L., ii. 60.

[547]. Frostath., v. 20.

[548]. See oath, p. [558].

[549]. It was thought unmanly to be disgraced three times and take no revenge. Cf. also Gulath., 196; Addition to Frostath. Law, 36.

[550]. Baug-eid, or “ring-oath,” is mentioned in Havamál, stanza 110.

[551]. Cf. also Eyrbyggja, c. 4, 16, 44.