Note 33 — Chapter II · THE PELASGIAN SYSTEM
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Il. ix. 634 suggests an ‘arrangement’ by which either (a) exile absolved the clan from punishment (cf. Laws of King Edmund, Seebohm, p. 356) or (b) exile was accepted in lieu of the murderer’s share of the wergeld (cf. Canones Wallici, quoted by Seebohm, op. cit. p. 109).