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 steward, he receives a third of the dirwy or the camlwrw. The chief of the household is to be a son or a nephew, a brother's son, to the king. A hornful of mead comes to him in every banquet from the queen. If the king in anger leaves any one of the household below the fireplace, let the chief of the household invite such a person to his own company. At the end of the hall sits the chief of the household and the whole household around him. Let him take what elder he may will on his right, and another on his left. A horse always in attendance he receives from the king, and two shares of the provender does his horse receive.

hoever shall do sarhad to a priest of a household or shall kill him, let him submit to the law of the synod ; and for his disparaging twelve kine are paid to him, and the third does he receive and the two-thirds the king. A priest of a household receives the garment in which the king shall do penance during Lent, and that by Eastertide; and he has the king's offering, and the offering of the household, and the offering of those who shall take an offering from the king in the three principal festivals; he always however receives the king's offering. A mess of food and a horn-