The fragments printed by Thorpe under the heading ‘North People’s Law’ and by Schmid in his ‘Anhang VII.’ seem to belong to Northumbria or more generally to the Danelaga. Schmid suggests that the ‘North people’ were the North folk of East Anglia. This, however, is perhaps more than doubtful, especially when it is considered that the Viking ‘armies’ had established themselves, not only in East Anglia and Mercia, but still more completely in Northumbria, many years before the struggle with Wessex had ended in the compact between Alfred and Guthrum. The fragment of ‘North People’s Law’[236] opens with the statement that the king’s gild is 30,000 _thrymsas_--15,000 for the wergeld and 15,000 for the people (_leodum_). In another MS. the wording follows the statement of Mercian law very closely, and agrees with the above in describing the amount in thrymsas. [Sidenote: Wergelds paid in thrymsas of threepence.] Ðæs cyninges wer-gyld sie mid Engla cynne on folc-riht þryttig þusend þrimsa ⁊ þæra xv .M. sien þæs wæres ⁊ oðra xv .M. þæs cynedomes. Se wære belympað to þam mægðe þæs cyne-cynnes ⁊ ꝥ cynebot to þam land-leod. Let the king’s wergeld be with the English race by folkright, 30,000 thrymsas, and of these let 15,000 be for the wer and the other 15,000 for the _cynedom_. The wer belongs to the kindred of the king and the cynebot to the people. Now, in the first place, what was the _thrymsa_, which occurs in these clauses for the first time? A statement a little further on in one of the two texts of the same fragment fixes the value of the thrymsa at three pence.[237] The statement of ‘North People’s Law’ proceeds as follows:[238]-- Arces ⁊ æðelinges wer-gyld is xv þusend þrymsa. (2) An archbishop’s and an ætheling’s wergeld is xv thousand thrymsas. Biscopes ⁊ ealdormannes viii þusend þrymsa. (3) A bishop’s and an ealdorman’s viii thousand thrymsas. Holdes ⁊ cyninges heah-gerefan iiii þusend þrymsa. (4) A hold’s and a king’s high-reeve’s iv thousand thrymsas. Mæsse-þegnes ⁊ woruld-þegnes ii þusend þrymsa. (5) A mass thane’s and a secular thane’s ii thousand thrymsas. Ceorles wer-gild is cc. ⁊ lxvi þrim. ꝥ bið ii hund scill be Myrcna lage. (6) A ceorl’s wergeld is cc and lxvi thrymsas, that is cc scillings by Mercian law. Put into tabular form these wergelds would be as follows in thrymsas and Wessex and Mercian scillings:--