Have thought more overnight (& at risk of a Bluesky thread becoming a peer reviewed article?) But if AS laws require payment in coin, but Irish Laws are based on Cumal units, & Welsh/Britons have a measurement based on land needed to produce units of beer (CharlesEdwards Wales & the Britons)...
...would there then need to be a set bullion weight (instead of coins) in order to fit with non-coin payment systems? If the request is for a part compensation payment (or even tithe) to a non-AngloSaxon religious house?
although the term "cumal" also means "female slave" - the use of the same word for a unit of equivalent compensation value has always made me wonder if that's why "Dublin weights" are different, to fit with "cumal" value?
and having just had a quick check of Laws of Ine, it's possible for wergeld to be due to church communities via am abbot or abbess? Depends on where an offence occurs.
Cáin Adomnán has a section which refers to having 5 guarantors for payments, but also had numerous references to how much the cumal is to the church or "tribe" for each "innocent"
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