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[1]The wife of a taeog cannot give without consent of her husband except her headgear, and cannot lend except her sieve and her riddle; and that as far as her calling can be heard with her foot on her threshold. [2]If a [pure] maiden goes

[A chasm in V supplied from W]

[3]away clandestinely without consent of kindred, her father can bring her back against her will from her husband ; and he is not to pay her amobr to the lord. If a woman however go away clandestinely, no one can bring her back against her will from her husband. From the place where her home may be her amobr is paid. [4]Whoever shall commit a rape on a woman, let him pay her gobr to the lord ; and her dirwy and her dilysdod and her agweddi and her sarhad, he pays to the woman ; and if she be a maid, let him pay her cowyll. [5]If a man denies rape on a woman and if the woman persists against him, let her take the relics in her right hand and his penis in her left hand, and let her swear to his having committed rape on her ; and in this way she loses nothing of her right. [6]Whoever shall deny rape, let him give the oaths of fifty

  1. V 37 b 21
  2. V 37 b 21
  3. W 79 b 4
  4. W 79 b 10
  5. W 79 b 13
  6. W 79 b 18