[Sidenote: Further steps into freedom at stages of three generations.] Thus we seem to see the family of the leysing who had ‘made his freedom ale’ gradually growing up into a kindred in successive stages until in the ninth generation a kindred of leysings had been fully formed and might be very numerous. In the corresponding clause in the Frostathing law (IX. 11) further details are mentioned. If not previously purchased by agreement with the master, the ‘_thyrmsl_’ came to an end after four generations: that is, the fifth generation was free from them. They lasted, therefore, over the first four generations from the original leysing to his great-grandchildren. For these four generations the leysing and his descendants were the leysings of the master and his descendants. [Sidenote: At the ninth generation the lordship over them ceases.] Then the clause goes on to show that the first leysing having ‘made his freedom ale’ shall take inheritance only of his son and daughter, and of his own freedman. The sons of this leysing take inheritance from six persons, viz. father, mother, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, and, seventhly, from any freedman of their own. Svá scal sunr leysingia taca oc sunarsunr oc þess sunr … oc svá dóttir oc systir sem sunr oc bróðir, ef þeir ero eigi til. Oc svá scal hvárt þeirra hyggia fyrir öðru. So shall the son of a leysing take, and his son’s son [grandson] and _his_ son [great-grandson] … and daughter and sister like son and brother, if there are none of these. Each _of these shall provide for the other_. Failing these leysing claimants, the inheritance rights revert to the master to the ninth knee, and, it is added, ‘_also providing for these if needed_.’ [Sidenote: Analogy of the Cymric gwely.] There is here something very much like the Cymric gwely or family of descendants of a great-grandfather with rights of maintenance under the rules of ‘_tir gwelyauc_’ and mutual liability. Until a kindred has been formed the master’s obligation to provide for the leysing remains, and it does not cease altogether until the kindred is complete. In the meantime as the kindred is formed its members are mutually liable for each other’s maintenance. In this respect within the group of descendants of a great-grandfather there is solidarity for maintenance as well as wergeld. [Sidenote: The lordship over them ceases when a full kindred is formed.]