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The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 544 — Chapter XL · INDEMNITY, WEREGILD.

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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.

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