wergild
noun
(in Anglo-Saxon England and other Germanic countries)
wergeld
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a variation of
wergild.
Example Sentences
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The payment, known as the wergeld, would vary according to the rank of the man killed.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Frederic Austin Ogg
The wergeld of a thegn was six times that of a coerl.
From Our Legal Heritage by S. A. Reilly
The kin was held for the wergeld; the goël must avenge his next of kin; the father must provide for prospective parents-in-law; the child must serve the parents.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
The present section specifies how the wergeld paid by a murderer should be divided among the relatives of the slain man.
From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Frederic Austin Ogg
The laws of Ine speak of gegildan who help each other pay the wergeld, but it is not entirely certain that they were members of gild fraternities in the later sense.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
