[108] I cannot make out the meaning of doberim fri.
[221.] Three things that are undignified for everyone: driving one's horse before one's lord so as to soil his dress, going to speak to him without being summoned, staring in his face as he is eating his food.
[222.] Three lawful handbreadths: a handbreadth between shoes and hose, a handbreadth between ear and hair, a handbreadth between the fringe of the tunic and the knee.
[223.] What is worst in a household? Sons of a bawd, frequent feasts, numerous alliances in marriages, abundance of mead and wine. They waste you and do not profit.
[224.] Three illnesses that are better than health: the lying-in of a woman with a male child, the fever of an abdominal disease that clears the bowels, a feverish passion to check evil by its good (?).
[225.] Three welcomes of an ale-house: plenty and kindliness and art.
226. Three services the worst that a man can serve: serving a bad woman, a bad lord, and a bad smith.[109]
[109] 'bad land,' N.
[227.] Three things that are best in a house: oxen,[110] men, axes.
[110] 'an ox,' N.