Note 189 — Chapter VIII · THE TRIBAL CUSTOMS OF THE OLDEST SCANDINAVIAN LAWS.

As to the fælagh or partnership between husband and wife, see the Gulathing Law, 53. The word fælagh seems to be equivalent to the ‘definitio’ of the Latin text, the definitio of the property being made at the time of the marriage. The word seems to be allied to the English word ‘fellowship.’ See Skeat, sub ‘fellow,’ who refers it to Icelandic ‘felag,’ literally ‘a laying together of property.’