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blood money orweregild paid by amurderer to thefamily of hisvictim under earlyWelsh law
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Examples
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So I took it as galanas, to clear the debt and the grudge.
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'Yet I think galanas can be paid in other mintage,' said Cadfael.
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And the man who had made away with him so lightly lay now barely twenty yards away, and at the very sound of his name every drop of blood in Anion ran Welsh, and cried out to him of the sacred duty of galanas, the blood feud for his brother.
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"Tienen mucha loza de los colorados y pintadas y negras, platos, caxetes, saleros, almoficos, xicaras muy galanas, alguna de la loza esta vidriada."
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[341-*] "Crian paxaros para su recreacion y para las plumas para hazer sus ropas galanas."
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In Wales the members of the family who received the galanas, did so in proportion to the importance of their position in the transmission of the kindred blood, according to a classification identical with their proximity in relationship to the dead man, and their expectation of inheritance from him or succession to his place.
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Y hallaron alli canela finissima que la hauian los dela isla trahydo de los Malucas y gengibre, y cosas de seda galanas.
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Trayan algunos vnas dagas de azero muy galanas, y muestran ser gente politica
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The Venedotian Code states that galanas is paid by the kindred: two parts by the relations of the father, one part by the relations of the mother, to _sixth cousins_.
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Blood-fine, not within the tribe or kindred, 42-4, 77; in Wales, the _galanas_, 78 _et seq.
trivet commented on the word galanas
Welsh blood money.
March 7, 2007