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Post by WestAlbany on Jun 18, 2020 18:40:48 GMT
Every third year roads must be cleared of brambles, weeds and water to prepare for the great assembly.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jun 18, 2020 18:44:55 GMT
The harpist is the only musician who is of noble standing. Flute-players, trumpeters and timpanists, stand on the backs of horses at fairs, have no status of their own in the community, only that of the noble chieftain to whom they are attached.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jun 19, 2020 11:42:12 GMT
The creditor who holds your brooch, your necklet or your earrings as a pledge against your loan must return them so you may wear them at the great assembly. OR HE WILL BE FINED FOR YOUR HUMILIATION
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Post by WestAlbany on Jun 19, 2020 11:44:50 GMT
Speech is given to three: to the historian-poet for the narration and relating of tales, to the poet-seer for praise and satire, and to the Brehon for giving judgement.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jun 23, 2020 14:53:43 GMT
The time allotted to each Brehon for pleading his case is long or short according to his dignity. In determining the length of the speech he is allowed, count eighteen breathings to the minute.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jun 23, 2020 14:54:38 GMT
When a judge deviates from the truth a blotch will appear on his cheek.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jun 24, 2020 20:04:38 GMT
On the best land everything is good. The herbs are sweet and no manure or shells are needed. There will be no plants that will stick in a horse's mane or tail: no briars, no blackthorns, no burdocks.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jun 24, 2020 20:06:46 GMT
For the best arable land the price is twenty-fours cows. The price for dry, coarse land is twelve dry cows.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jun 26, 2020 11:58:04 GMT
How many things add to the price of land? A wood, a mine, the site of a mill, a highway, a road, a great sea, a river, a mountain, a river falling into the sea, a cooling pond for cattle. Add three cows to the price if it is near a chieftain's house or a monastery.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jun 26, 2020 12:01:34 GMT
For stripping the bark of an oak tree, enough to tan the leather for a pair of woman's shoes, the fine is one cow-hide. The defendant must cover the bruised portion with a mixture of wet clay, new milk and cow dung.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jun 27, 2020 15:02:17 GMT
If a man takes a woman off on a horse, into the woods or onto a sea-going ship, and if members of the woman's tribe are present, they must object within twenty-four hours or they may not demand payment of the fine.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jun 28, 2020 14:13:35 GMT
The husband-to-be shall pay a bride-price of land, cattle, horses, gold or silver to the father of the bride. Husband and wife retain individual rights to all the land, flocks and household goods each brings to the marriage.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jun 28, 2020 14:14:53 GMT
The husband who, through listlessness, does not go to his wife in her bed must pay a fine.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jun 28, 2020 14:16:52 GMT
If a pregnant woman craves a morsel of food and her husband withholds it through stinginess or neglect, he must pay a fine.
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Post by WestAlbany on Jun 29, 2020 12:34:11 GMT
Children shall be sent at an early age to distant members of the tribe to be reared in the hereditary professions of law, medicine, poetic composition or war, or of tilling the soil and wifeliness. Foster children shall be returned to their parents at the marriage age: fourteen for girls and seventeen for boys.
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