(b) He also ordered the Russians to conduct their warfare in imitation of the Danes, and never to marry a wife without buying her.

He thought that bought marriages would have more security, believing that the troth which was sealed with a price was the safest.

(d) Moreover, anyone who durst attempt the violation of a virgin was to be punished with the severance of his bodily parts, or else to requite the wrong of his intercourse with a thousand talents.

(e) He also enacted that any man that applied himself to war, who aspired to the title of tried soldier, should attack a single man, should stand the attack of two, should only withdraw his foot a little to avoid three, but should not blush to flee from four.
(f) He also proclaimed that a new custom concerning the pay of the soldiers should be observed by the princes under his sway.

He ordered that each native soldier and housecarl should be presented in the winter season with three marks of silver, a common or hired soldier with two, a private soldier who had finished his service with only one.