WERGELDS
- (in Anglo-Saxon England and other Germanic countries)
- money paid to the relatives of a murder victim in compensation for loss and to prevent a blood feud
- the amount of money fixed as compensation for the murder or disablement of a person, computed on the basis of rank
- WERGELD, a price paid for the taking of a man's life in Anglo-Saxon law [n]
- WERGELD, a price paid for taking a man's life, also WEREGILD, WERGELT, WERGILD [n]
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