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 galanas from the murderer. To the king comes the third of every galanas, because it is for him to enforce where it is not possible for a kindred to enforce; and what shall be obtained of the murderer's chattels from time to time, belongs to the king. The galanas of a king's taeog is paid with three kine and three score kine with three augmentations. His sarhad is three kine and three score of silver. The galanas of a breyr's taeog is half the galanas of a king's taeog, and likewise his sarhad. The galanas of a king's alltud is paid with three kine and three score kine without augmentation. His sarhad is three kine without addition. The galanas of a breyr's alltud, is half the galanas of a king's alltud. The galanas of a taeog's alltud, is half the galanas of a breyr's alltud, and likewise with regard to their sarhads.

hoever shall strike a person, let him pay his sarhad first, because attack and onset constitute a sarhad to every person ; and a penny for every hair pulled out from his head by the root ; and a penny for every finger which shall touch the head ; and twenty-four pence for the front hair. Let every one choose his status, whether by the status of his chief of kindred or by the status of his father or by