 She exercised all the rights afforded to the head of a family clan until she married at which time her rights were transferred to her husband.The right to inherit in itself applied to both the paternal aunt, paternal niece and paternal granddaughter of the deceased, who were all named as "odalkvinna", but the right to inherit the position of head of the family was a right which could only be inherited by the daughter or the sister of a dead man.The ringkvinna had the specific support of the law to perform all the tasks normally performed by a head of the family, such as, the right to demand and receive fines for the slaughter of a family member.