REGULATION AS TO INDEMNITY. 547 



If one of the women is missing, the son of the slain shall receive 

 two aurar, and if two are missing, half a mark, and if all are 

 missing, one mark " (G-ulath., 221). 



The Gulathing's Law differs from the Frostathing's Law only 

 in one point, viz., the last divides the bondi into two classes, the 

 arli or inn-man and the reksthegit. 1 The law seems to mean in 

 the case of the latter a man who was not odal-born, yet could 

 point to four generations of freemen on his father's side ; but 

 the difference between the two is not told. 



The Icelanders when trading or staying in Norway took 

 the rett of a haulld , but if they remained more than three 

 years, or settled there, they were to have the rett which they 

 had in their own country, and which had to be proved by 

 witnesses. 



All other foreigners had the rett of a bondi unless they 

 could prove by witness a higher one. 



" A freedrnan (ley sing i] owns six aurar as single rett, and 

 his son a mark as single rett. A londi owns 12 aurar as single 

 rett, a haulld three marks, a lendrman and a stallari (marshal) 

 six marks, the jarl and the bishop 12 marks. The son of a 



lendrman shall get the rett of a haulld if he gets no land 



Icelanders have the rett of a haulld while they are on trading 

 journeys, until they have been here three winters and lived 

 here. Then they have the rett which witnesses prove. All 

 other foreigners who come to this country have the rett of a 

 bondi unless they prove by witnesses that they have a higher 

 rett " (Gulath., 200). 



The inhabitants of towns all enjoyed the same rett, which 

 was three marks. 



" It is the law that all men have an equal rett in the town 

 (namely) the rett of a haulld, 3 marks, the lendrman as well 

 as the freedrnan who has made his freedom-ale " (Bjark- 

 eyjar Law, 97). 



The lendir-menn were regarded as a higher division of the 

 haulld ; and although the son of the lendr-man, as such, had 



1 The reksthegn was a freeman de- 

 scended from thrall kin, although his 

 family might have been free for several 

 generations. The rett of the arborinn- 



one mark. The classes in the two other 

 law districts were probably similar to 

 those above, but it seems that the haulld 

 and boudi were classified as one. 



madr was 12 aurar, that of the reksthegn 



2 x 'I 



