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 times as much as his sarhad with three augmentations. In three ways sarhad is done to the queen ; when her protection shall be violated, or when she shall be struck in anger, or when a thing shall be taken out of her hand with violence ; and then a third of the worth of the king's sarhad is paid to the queen, without gold however and without silver. Thirty-six persons on horseback it befits the king to support in his retinue ; the twenty-four officers and his twelve gwestais; and together with that, his household and his nobles and his youths and his minstrels and his almsmen. The most honourable after the king and the queen is the edling. The edling is to be to the king a brother or a son or a nephew, the son of brother. The protection of the edling is to conduct the person who commits the offence until he is safe. The sarhad and the galanas of the king and the edling are the same, excepting privileged gold and silver and the cattle which are placed from Argoel to the Court of Dinevwr. The place of the edling in the hall is opposite to the king about the fire with him. Between the edling and the pillar next to him sits the judge of the court ; on the other side of him, the priest of the household ; after