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Toni Sihvonen (order #92780) 6
(Pendragon page 183-4)]. If your wound has completely
healed after three days, you are innocent; if not, you are
guilty.
Hot Iron
You must carry a red-hot one-pound iron bar for nine
feet. Rules and effects are identical to Hot Water, above.
Threefold Ordeal
Only used for serious crimes, the Threefold Ordeal triples
the weight of the iron bar, or requires you to reach into
scalding water up to your elbow instead of your wrist (-
3 to Valorous and CON in these cases). Sometimes it
means performing all three ordeals in succession.
Goods and Prices
Market Prices (Pendragon pages 240-243):
Britain’s markets are in chaos during the Saxons! campaign.
One Saxon scilling equals 2d6x2 Pendragon
denarii; roll for each market Saxons visit to reflect fluctuating
conditions. One librum equals 20 (+ld6. -1d6)
scillings (thus the range is from 15 to 25). Use the
Standard Price list, ignoring “Inn” and “Abbey” items. A
few luxuries from the Great City Price List may be available
from Roman cities at either twice or half the normal
price, depending on which way desperation is pushing
the Roman folk. For land and fortifications. see below.
Funerals: Costs may be shared among cynn. The Glory
gained by the deceased is passed down to his descendants
as normal (l/lOth Glory)
Boats: The typical Saxon boat is 75 feet long, with a
square sail and oarlocks for fifteen men on a side. It
holds ten passengers in addition to the thirty oarsmen,
Funeral Costs
Burial
Average Funeral (buried in local grave with
clothes, a knife, and perhaps a spear; or
cremated and buried in a modest urn)
Rich Funeral (as above, but with more
grave goods and/or a priestly ceremony)
Sumptuous Funeral (interred in a barrow
with goods and perhaps slaves: cremated
in massive public ceremony)
Extraordinary Funeral (as above, but either
buried with a ship, or set adrift in a holed
or burning ship)
cost
60d
5f
1Of
30+f
Wergilds and Oath-weight
Wergild
Laet
5f
Ceorl
1 Of
Thegn
120f
Ealdorman
1,OOOf
Aet heling, Cyning 2,lOOf
Child, Woman
twice normal
(for compensation only)
Injury Wergild
The Saxons had 40 or more injury wergilds. based on the
extent of the injury, the person injured, and the person
committing the crime. Rather than list all forty here, we
have abstracted them down to the following:
Struck with fist
1 healsfang (up to three times
per fight)
Hit with a weapon 2 healsfangs (up to three times
per fight)
Major Wound
5 healsfangs
Mortal Wound
10 healsfangs (whether the
victim died or not)
Oath-weight
Oath-weight equals wergild, +1 per full 500 points of
Glory. However, the GM may raise or lower your oath
weight by +/- 25% for successful pleading (Orate, Traits,
Passions) or favorable or adverse situations (the judge hates
your cynn, strong evidence in your favor, etc.).
Typical Fines
Lie with cyning’s serving woman
Lie with nobleman’s serving woman
Lie with ceorl’s serving woman
Armed another during an argument
(no blood yet spilled)
Armed a robber
Armed a murderer
Shirked military or other duties, if landed
thegn (“bord-bot”)
Bord-bot. if ceorl
Bord-bot, if heorthgeneat
Kidnapping
Theft, battery, rape, manslaughter
As above, in your host’s house
As above, before cyning or aetheling
Any of the above. if it breaches an
aetheling’s or cyning’s protection or peace
As above, if secretive, gratuitous,
or sorcerous
50s
20s
6s
6s
6s
20s
120s
60s
30s
5 healsfangs
Normal
we rg i I d
Doubled
Doubled again
+50s
Bootless