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to a man without taking surety for her gobr to the lord. [1]If a woman be taken clandestinely to any house, let the man of the house take surety for her gobr to the lord; and if he does not take it, let him pay himself. [2]The gobr of a female alltud is twenty-four pence. [3]The chief of song has the gobrs of the daughters of the bards who shall be under him. [4]The throw of a sickle is the protection of a bondman. [5]The throw of an axe or a hedging-bill, is the protection of a land-maer. [6]Twenty-four pence is the sarhad of a serving bondwoman who works neither at the spade nor the quern. [7]If a married man has connexion with another woman, let him pay six score pence to the lawful wife for her wyneb-werth. [8]If a husband and wife separate before the end of the seven years, thus is the furniture divided between them. The husband has what bedclothes shall be between him and the floor, and the wife has the coverlid. The husband has the corn, and the wife has the made flour. The husband has the plaid and the winnowing sheet and the dormitory bolster and the coulter and the fuel axe and the handaxe and all the sickles save one sickle. The wife has the broad axe and the share and the spade and the one

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