This is my best, imperfect, translation. “It might fall so [come to pass] that the appealer dies before the day. His legal surety are bound under great pains,

This is my best, imperfect, translation. “It might fall so [come to pass] that the appealer dies before the day. His legal surety are bound under great pains, comes and enters his dead body within the barriers to free them of their duty...” It then goes on to say that if the defender enters the “arena” (they’re calling it a barrier) and finds the prover dead, “and he can not slay a slain man, and he himself is not yet purged of the crime,” of which he is accused, then his only recourse is to carry the dead body outside of the field of honor before the end of the day. It also explains that the friends of the dead man can possibly appoint a champion for the dead guy, if the judge will allow it. The next paragraph explains that he’s heard once, “that when the dead man was laid within the barriers he was so heavy that the other man was not strong enough to put him out of the barriers,” before the sun set. So the friends of the dead man asked the judge for a ruling, and the judge found in favor of the corpse, upholding his accusation against the defendant! “And some say that this living man while he was casting the dead man out of the barriers he fell backward on his back and the dead man on his breast, and could not [get rid of him] until the day ended. And so be the law that he was judged of the crime...” and so on. Weird, wild stuff.