Note 231 — Chapter XI · DANISH VIEW OF ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM.

Pollock and Maitland, i. p. 20. But see Laws of King Edmund, s. 4, ‘On Blood-shedding.’ ‘Also I make known that I will not have to “socn” in my “hirede” that man who sheds man’s blood before he has undertaken ecclesiastical “bot” and made “bot” to the kindred,’ &c. See also in s. 6 the use of the words ‘mund-brice and Ham-socn.’