Mægþ-bót

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

e;

mægþ-bót

f. The fine to be paid by an unmarried woman :-- Mægþbót sí swá friges mannes lei the fine to be paid by an unmarried woman be the same as that by a free man (for the same offence), L. Ethb. 74 j Th. i. 20, 9. This regulation follows one that settles the fine to be paid by 'frí wíf locbore.' mægþ-bot