The Gulathings Law expressly mentions those female degrees to which the _ódal_ descended. These were: daughter, sister, aunt, father’s sister, daughter of brothers, and son’s daughters. It adds that if two sisters inherited an _ódal_, and one had a son and the other a daughter, the former had a right to purchase the shares of his kinswomen in the _ódal_. The right of inheritance does not seem to have extended further than the third cousin on the father’s side, or second cousin on the mother’s. Where sons existed they always inherited to the exclusion of their sisters.[87] If an _ódal_ by inheritance came to one not entitled to _ódals-right_, the right of redemption was open to the nearest of kin, who had such right. If one of joint heirs had the right of _ódal_ and the other not, the former got his share of the inheritance in _ódals land_, the other in personal property. In case a son’s son and daughter inherited together, the former had the right of purchasing the latter’s share in the _ódal_. Daughters always inherited certain things, such as article of clothing, household goods, bedding, ornaments, &c. “This shall a daughter take in inheritance after her mother, if her brother is alive: all clothes except cloaks (_skikkja_) of _gudvef_ (costly stuff), and all uncut clothes; these her brother owns. And of clothes the brother shall take gold-lace, if he wants it; but woven cloaks and all bed-hangings, and lace-clothes (i.e. edged with lace), brocades and feather-clothes and down-clothes, the daughter shall have. If a web is in the loom, the son owns that which is woven, and the daughter that which is not woven. The son owns all mats and bench-clothes, fur-hoods and house-furniture; the daughter owns the bed-covers if her mother owned them, and the son if the father owned them. The daughter owns five sheep, and all linen and yarn, and five sheepskins with the wool on, and the geese, and the son owns all the rest. The daughter owns all cloth-chests, if her mother owned them. The daughter shall have a cross or a brooch, whichever she may want; or the best breast-ornament, if it is not of gold but of silver; and all brooches if they weigh one eyrir or less, and are of silver and precious stones. All vessels out of which women drink to each other across the floor at home belong to the daughter, though they are ornamented with silver. The son shall own the silver vessels. The daughter shall have one washing-basin, unless there be a chain between two, then she shall have both” (Earlier Frostathings Law, ix. 9). If, during his lifetime, a father gave more property to one of his sons than to another, such a gift was taken into consideration at the division of the inheritance on the father’s death. “If a man gives more to one of his sons than to the other then the latter shall take as much from the undivided property as was given to the one that got more; then they shall divide equally all that is left” (Gulath., 129).