“A woman is betrothed according to law if a man recites the agreement about the _mund_; then the guardian and the man to whom the woman is betrothed shall name witnesses to it. The man who is betrothed shall say: ‘We name witnesses that thou N. N. betrothest thyself to me N. N. with a lawful betrothal, and givest me the _heimanfylgja_ with _hand-shaking_, as the fulfilment and performance of the whole agreement which was a while ago recited between us without fraud and tricks.’ This is a complete and lawful match. It is lawful when the betrother is the one who has the right to betroth according to law; and it is complete if the betrothed is in such health that she would be bought at no less price if she was a bondmaid, or has no other faults or blemishes which would make her cost less or which she had when sixteen winters old. But if these faults are found in the woman, the man who knowing it betrothed the woman is liable to lesser outlawry for it, and the wedding may be prevented if the man betrothed wishes it, provided he had before pronounced the words, ‘a complete and lawful match’—but not otherwise. Now if the betrothed man wants to demand the _mund_ he shall summon the guardian, because he has betrothed the woman knowing such faults in her that she would cost less if she were a bondmaid. He shall summon him to lesser outlawry, and summon nine of his neighbours to the _Thing_. If the witnesses are against him he is to be outlawed, and the _mund_ cannot be claimed. If the witnesses say that the guardian knew not the faults of the woman he can defend himself, but he cannot claim the _mund_ unless he can get five dwellers at the farm of the woman as witnesses that she has not these faults; then the _mund_ is to be paid back” (Gragas, i. 316).[11] If the betrothed woman was injured or wronged in any way the man had the same right to gain redress as if she were his wife. “Every man has full _rétt_ on the behalf of his betrothed as well as his wife, as long as it is due; but if she sits at home in the house of a father or brother they have the full rétt on her behalf which her betrothed would otherwise have had” (Frostath., xi. 12). “If a man runs away with a betrothed woman he shall pay full _rétt_ to the betrothed man and also to her father” (Bjarkey law, 125). The virtue of a betrothed woman was very carefully guarded. “If the father dies before the wedding within the twelve months, and the child is begotten, then that child shall take its father’s inheritance as if its mother were bought with _mund_. But in no other way is a man inheritance-born unless his mother is bought with _mund_, or he is led lawfully into the family (adopted). Though a man betroth his concubine in order that according to this law his children be inheritance-born, or delays the wedding on account of this, it does not matter, for neither shall _inheritance-fraud_ be committed, nor the wedding be dishonoured by this” (Frostath., 13).