Rules made for hateful people

These rules are made for hateful people.

1 Whoso in hasty mood or out of envy, breaks another’s leg, pokes out an eye or tooth, whatever it be, so must the offender pay what the aggrieved asks.¹
If he cannot do that, so must he openly have done to him as he did to the other.
If he will not stand this, so must he turn himself over to his burghmaid, (that he) may work in iron or tin mines until his debt be paid, according to the common judgement.

2 If there be anyone found so evil that he fells a Frisian, he must pay with his life.
If his burghmaid can help him into the tin mines, for all time, before he is captured, so may she do that.⁵

3 Wheresoever the accused may prove with recognized witnesses, that it happened by accident, he shall be free but if it happens yet again, so must he indeed to the tin mines, so that one (might) therethrough avoid all vengeance and strife.