The penalties for bastards

These are the penalties (dooms) for bastards ¹

1 Whoever sticks the red rooster on (burns) another’s house out of envy is none of Frya’s, he is a bastard with bastard blood.
If one may find him at the deed, so must one throw him upon the fire, but nowhere shall he be safe from the avenging hand.

2 No true Frisian shall dally or speak ill of the misdeeds of his neighbour.
If someone is injurious to himself though not to be feared by another, so may he judge himself.⁵
If he becomes so bad that he becomes threatening, so must one take it to the grave, but if there is any who slanders another behind his back, instead of doing it by the grave, he is a bastard.
In the market must he be bound on a pole, that the young folk may spit on him, afterwards, one leads him over the frontier, but not to the tin mines, for there is an honour-robber (slanderer) also to be feared.

3 Wheresoever there were anyone so bad that he goes and betrays us to the enemy, shows the paths and sidepaths to approach our refuges or to slip in at night, him were wrought only out of Finda’s blood.
Him should one needs burn.
The sailors should bring his mother and all his sibs to a far island there strew his ashes that no venomous plants may thence grow.¹⁰
The maids must spit out his name in all our states, until no child receives his name and the old might reproach him.