Father’s brother 12 ores Brother’s son 12 ” Brother by the same mother 12 ” Thrallborn son 12 ” Daughter’s son 12 ” Mother’s father 12 ” ------- 72 ores = 9 marks. So that the bauga and upnám payments--two thirds and one third--added together once more make a normal wergeld of twenty-seven marks, that is, thirty of the Merovingian standard. Then clause 247, ‘Further on saker,’ gives to-- Mother’s brother 9 ores Sister’s son 9 ” Thrallborn brother 9 ” Father’s sister’s son 6 ” [Sidenote: The whole wergeld 2 marks of _nova moneta_ or 30 Roman marks.] And in clause 248 ‘further on saker,’ a thrallborn father’s brother and a thrallborn daughter’s son by a kinborn father, take each a mark. The traditional wergeld seems, therefore, once more to be 27 marks of Charlemagne or 30 Merovingian marks, and the additional payments appear to be _sakaukar_. But the upnám group in this case includes the brother by the same mother and the thrallborn son, leaving outside as sakaukar the mother’s brother and the sister’s son and the father’s sister’s son along with the thrallborn brother. [Sidenote: Payments to outsiders additional to secure safety, and varied locally.] It is not within the scope of this inquiry to attempt either to explain, or to explain away as of no moment, the variations in the persons included under the various schemes in the groups of bauga and nefgildi or upnám men. Even such a question as that of the exclusion from the upnám group of the mother’s brother and the sister’s son, to make way for the illegitimate half-brother and thrallborn son, is not necessarily to be disposed of as a later alteration in favour of those of illegitimate birth. For the Cymric precedent might well lead us to an opposite conclusion, inasmuch as in the laws of Howell, in spite of strong ecclesiastical opposition, the ancient pagan custom of admitting illegitimate sons to share in the father’s inheritance was defended and retained as too fully established to be given up.[182] Looked at from the point of view of the feud, they were naturally more on the spot and therefore of much more moment than the mother’s brother or the sister’s son.