WERGILD
- (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
- the value set in Anglo-Saxon and Germanic law upon human life in accordance with rank and paid as compensation to the kindred or lord of a slain person
- wergeld (a price paid for the taking of a man's life in Anglo-Saxon law) [n WERGILDS]
- a price paid for taking a man's life, also WEREGILD, WERGELD, WERGELT [n -S]
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