But the amount in this clause is only eighteen marks, while that of the bauga payments of the wergeld we have just been considering, as probably the earlier one, was twenty marks. How is this to be accounted for? The answer surely must be that eighteen marks of Charlemagne, reckoned in wheat-grains, were exactly equal to twenty of the Roman or Merovingian marks of the earlier period. [Sidenote: Another detailed statement makes the bauga payment 18 or 20 marks.] The other statement alluded to is also a statement avowedly of the bauga payments, and begins with almost the same words, ‘Now the giöld for the hauld shall be told.’ In this case the details are given and the detailed payments add up between eighteen and nineteen marks, and yet the total is given as a little more than twenty marks. This statement differs from the older one in its divisions, but it has an air of antiquity and reality about it which suggests that it may represent a local custom actually in force. Little touches of picturesque detail seem to bring it into contact with actual life, and to show how local custom might work out a common object by its own peculiar method. It meets us abruptly in clause 243 under the heading ‘_On baugar_,’ and commences thus:-- Now the giöld for the hauld shall be told-- 6 marks (of 12 ells to the ore) in the _head-baug_, 4 marks in the _brother’s-baug_, 2½ marks in the _brœðrung’s baug_. It then introduces quite another element, viz. the _tryggva-kaup_ (truce-buying). Nú scolo fylgia tvau tryggva kaup baugi hverium. Two tryggva-kaup shall go with every baug. hvert scal eyrir oc fimtungr eyris tryggva kaup. Each tryggva-kaup shall be 1⅕ ore. En tryggva kaup scal fara bauga manna í mellom. Tryggva-kaup shall go between _bauga-men_. In the next clause it is explained that this ‘peace-price’ (_sættar-kaup_) is paid when the kinsmen come together to make peace, and that three marks are also paid as _skógar-kaup_--‘forest price,’ _i.e._ payment to release the slayer from being a _skógar-maðr_, or outlaw living in the forest. The slayer pays a _baug_ to the son of the dead, and two _truce-prices_, one to the brother and the other to the ‘_brœðrung_’ of the dead. And the slayer’s brother pays a _baug_ to the brother of the slain and again two truce-prices, one to the son of the slain and the other to the _brœðrung_ of the slain. And the _brœðrung_ of the slayer pays a _baug_ to the _brœðrung_ of the slain and again two ‘truce-prices,’ one to the son and the other to the brother of the slain. All this is for peace-buying (_sættar-kaup_) when the kinsmen are met together to make peace.