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63 after them, before eight years have elapsed, she is to take a mark
20/40 45 This paragraph should be here, as indicated by the reading of B,
where it appears in the margin. In A it appears at 19/142.
20/41 their A: which B omits. share B adds with the daughters
20/43 paid B adds and the women s portions are discharged she B; A: he
20/45 then B omits.
20/53 full B omits.
20/60 It is also . . . B has the words Hogsl oc id ( Consolation and provision )
in the margin at this point, as a side heading.
20/62 B; A omits.
THE LAW OF THE GOTLANDERS
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in coin for each year while her sons lived. But if she marries
again while her sons are still alive, she is to receive consolation
and provision and no more. A widow who is childless is to have 66
board and lodging, if she wishes, in the same farm into which she
married. If she does not want this, she is to have half a mark in
coin for each year sixteen years and receive it year by 69
year.
But in the case of female inheritance, a daughter or daughter s
children inherit. If there are none of these, then the sister or sister s 72
children inherit. If there are none of these, then the father s sister
or father s sister s children inherit. If there are none of these,
then the next blood relatives down to the fourth generation inherit, 75
but no further. If there are none of these, the female inheritance
remains in the farm estate with the kinsmen. If there are no male
heirs and it has passed to the female line, whether it is through a 78
brother or a sister, and they are both equal in blood relationship,
then they both inherit. Should both father and son be burned alive
in the same house, both drown in the same ship, or both fall in the 81
same battle, then sisters are considered equal to daughters. If
more than one son survives a man and the family grows from all
of them, but one (i.e. if it happens that one) dies without sons, 84
then all (i.e. the others) are equally near in inheritance down to
the fourth generation. Anyone who sells his ancestral home and
disposes of everything within the farmstead will be separated 87
from inheriting with the kinsmen and brothers and will be assigned
the wergild of a non-Gotlander. But his sons will remain within
the line of inheritance and the legal entitlements of their kinsmen, 90
if they obtain land again worth three marks in rent.
No illegitimate son can obtain the right to inheritance unless it
is the case that both his father and mother are trueborn Gotlanders, 93
20/69 B; A omits.
20/71 B has a new chapter here: 27 Concerning women s inheritance
20/72 73 If there are . . . inherit. B omits.
20/81 both drown B: or both drown
20/92 B has a new chapter here: 28 Concerning illegitimate children
20/92 93 it is the case that B omits.
30 GUTA LAG
and he confirms it with what is written in a genealogical table, to
the effect that three successive female ancestors are trueborn
96 Gotlanders. Then the son of the third in line can inherit with the
kinsmen. If a Gotlandic man begets an illegitimate child with a
Gotlandic woman and he has no (i.e. no legitimate) male heir and
99 he is survived by illegitimate children, sons and daughters, then
they divide their paternal movables according to their number with
the legitimate daughters, if there are any. If there are none, then
102 they divide their father s movables amongst each other according
to their number. But if a Gotlandic man begets illegitimate sons
with a non-Gotlandic woman, then he must support them until
105 they are of age. If they do not wish to remain with their father any
longer, then he is to give three marks in coin to each of them and
battle weapons and bedclothes, bedcover and under-blanket and
108 pillow and fifteen ells of broadcloth for walking-clothes. If he has
illegitimate daughters, then he must support them until they are
eighteen years of age; he has the right to give them in marriage if
111 someone requests it. But if they remain unmarried and no longer
wish to remain with their father when eighteen years have passed,
then he must give a mark of silver to each, and bed- and walking-
114 clothes and a cow according to his means. The entitlements of
illegitimate children must always be administered with the
corroboration of the parishioners.
117 If a Gotlandic man begets an illegitimate daughter with a non-
Gotlandic woman and if someone is charged with violation of
that illegitimate daughter, then he (i.e. the violator) is to give her
120 four marks as consolation, whether he Gotlandic or non-
Gotlandic. If a man is found in flagrante delicto with this daughter,
then he must redeem his hand or foot with three marks of silver.
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