> Are you assuming that wergild is always set so as to be equal to
property
> (i.e. that a cottar with a 10-cow wergild owns 10 cows?). Is this
perhaps
> stated somewhere in Thunder Rebels where I can't find it for the
moment?
No - but as has been pointed out repeatedly, when we talk about "cows" we are not REALLY talking about cows.
>
> My academic background in studying barbarian lawcodes leads me to
believe
> that this isn't how they usually worked in the RW. A king's ransom
Well, I happily concede the point. If those were not intended by the authors to be signposts, then we are indeed missing information
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