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wergeld

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wer·geld  (wûrgld) also wer·gild or were·gild (-gld)
n.
In Anglo-Saxon and Germanic law, a price set upon a person's life on the basis of rank and paid as compensation by the family of a slayer to the kindred or lord of a slain person to free the culprit of further punishment or obligation and to prevent a blood feud.
[Middle English wargeld, from Old English wergeld : wer, man; see w-ro- in Indo-European roots + geld, payment.]


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