II. THE WERGELDS OF THE GULATHING AND FROSTATHING LAW 238 III. THE GRADATIONS OF SOCIAL RANK DISCLOSED BY THE WERGELDS ETC. 260 IV. THE CLASSES OF FREE MEN AND THEIR RELATION TO LAND 271 V. THE LEX SCANIA ANTIQUA 276 VI. SCANIAN AND LOMBARDIC CUSTOM COMPARED 292 CHAPTER IX. _TRIBAL CUSTOM IN SCOTLAND._ I. TRACES OF TRIBAL CUSTOM IN THE LAWS OF THE EARLY KINGS 297 II. THE ‘REGIAM MAJESTATEM’ 302 III. ‘LEGES INTER BRETTOS ET SCOTOS’ 307 IV. RECOGNITION OF THE FOURTH AND NINTH DEGREES OF KINDRED IN SCOTLAND 318 CHAPTER X. _ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM FROM THE NORMAN POINT OF VIEW._ I. ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM AS APPLIED TO NORMANS 321 II. NORMAN VIEW OF WESSEX CUSTOM 325 CHAPTER XI. _DANISH VIEW OF ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM._ I. THE ‘DE INSTITUTIS LUNDONIE’--OF CNUT (?) 337 II. FRAGMENT ‘OF “GRITH” AND OF “MUND”’ 344 III. THE ‘FRITH’ BETWEEN ETHELRED II. AND OLAF TRYGGVASON, A.D. 993 349 CHAPTER XII. _ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM FROM THE VIKING OR NORTHMEN’S POINT OF VIEW._ I. THE COMPACT BETWEEN KING ALFRED AND GUTHRUM, A.D. 886 351 II. THE COURSE OF PROCEDURE IN PAYMENT OF WERGELD 356 III. FRAGMENTS OF MERCIAN AND NORTH PEOPLE’S LAW 360 CHAPTER XIII. _EARLY ANGLO-SAXON CUSTOM._ I. KING ALFRED’S DOOMS 370 II. THE DIALOGUE OF EGBERT, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, A.D. 732-766. ECCLESIASTICAL OATHS AND WERGELDS 377 III. THE DOOMS OF INE, A.D. 688-725 386 IV. THE POSITION OF STRANGERS IN BLOOD UNDER KING INE’S LAWS--THE SIX-HYNDEMAN 396 V. THE TWELVE-HYNDE AND TWY-HYNDE MEN AND THEIR HYNDENS OF OATH-HELPERS 406 VI. THE GESITHCUND AND CEORLISC CLASSES IN THEIR CONNECTION WITH LAND 417 VII. COMPARISON OF WESSEX AND MERCIAN WERGELDS WITH THOSE OF CONTINENTAL TRIBES 436 CHAPTER XIV. _THE LAWS OF THE KENTISH KINGS._ I. DISTINCTION FROM ANGLO-SAXON LAWS, A.D. 596-696 440