sentences:  A man's privilege was assessed in terms of his "braint" (status), of which there were two kinds (birth and office), and in terms of his superior's importance.Two men might each be an "uchelwr" (high man), but a king is higher than a "breyr" (a regional leader), so legal compensation for the loss to a king's bondsman ("aillt") was higher than the equivalent loss to the bondsman of a "breyr".Early sources stressed birth and function as the determinators of nobility, and not by the factor of wealth that later became associated with an aristocracy.