“If a man kisses a woman (belonging to another) secretly, with her will, he is liable to pay three marks, and the one who would have to prosecute for seduction has to prosecute. If she gets angry at it, she may prosecute herself, and the man is then liable to lesser outlawry. If a man kisses a man’s wife secretly, he is liable to lesser outlawry whether she allows it or refuses it. Nine neighbours are to be called as witnesses to this at the _Thing_.... If a man puts on a _fald_ or _woman’s clothes_ to deceive a woman, he is liable to lesser outlawry”[36] (Gragas, i. 337). “If a man makes a _song of love_[37] on a woman, he is to be outlawed. If the woman is twenty years or older, she shall prosecute the case herself. But if she is younger, or will not prosecute, her legal guardian has to do it” (Gragas, vol. ii., p. 150). Women’s rights appear to have been not altogether unknown even in these early days; for women who got their own livelihood and whose kinsmen did not trouble themselves about their support, were their own masters. “If kinsmen will not take proper care of women, and they (the women) get their living themselves, then they shall rule over themselves as they like” (Frostath., xi. 17). ----- Footnote 1: To tie or join together. _Tengdir_ = bonds or ties of affinity; _tengda-modir_ = mother-in-law; _tengda-fadir_ = father-in-law. Footnote 2: Powerful chiefs sometimes sent ambassadors to ask for the hand of the lady they wanted to wed. Footnote 3: Cf. also c. 13, 98. Footnote 4: Farm of Fridthjóf’s father. Footnote 5: The mund was the property or money which the suitor was to give to the bride. Footnote 6: The word _festar_ implied that she was fastened, or, in a modern sense, betrothed to the man; and this important ceremony preliminary to marriage took place in the presence of six witnesses. Footnote 7: Common woollen cloth. Footnote 8: Cf. also Earlier Gulathing’s Law, 51; Njala, c. 2. Footnote 9: A ship. Footnote 10: The word seems to imply a gift of linen, in which, perhaps, clothing was included. Olaf Tryggvason gave a cloak as linfé. Footnote 11: Cf. Gunnlaug Ormstunga, c. 4. Footnote 12: Cf. also Laxdæla. Footnote 13: Skupla = a woman’s hood hiding the face. Footnote 14: This necklace had been made by Dvergar, and belonged to Freyja. Footnote 15: Stones to make a false breast. Footnote 16: Cf. also Rigsmal, 23. Footnote 17: Thor. Footnote 18: For the whole story of Thor and Thrym, as translated from the Earlier Edda, see Anderson’s Mythology, pp. 328–335; and especially, in connection with this, pp. 331, 332. Footnote 19: Cf. also Hörd, c. 3. Footnote 20: Cf. also Droplaugar sona Saga, 23, 24. Footnote 21: Borgarthing’s Law says thirty years; in Iceland after three years (Gragas, 153). But however these laws differed, they all agree that the woman owns one-third, the man two-thirds. Footnote 22: