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Weregild (also
spelled wergild,
wergeld (in archaic/historical
usage of English), weregeld, etc.), also
known as man
price (blood money), was a precept...
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father of Beowulf. Reportedly, his
powerful family demanded too high a
weregild from Ecgþeow's clan, the Wægmundings, so Ecgþeow was
banished and had to...
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within the
society of free men,
reflected in the
differences in
weregild. The
weregild was
instituted as a way to
prevent the
blood feuds. It was a sum...
- Guthrum's territories, as well as
agreements on
peaceful trade and the
weregild value of its people. The
treaty is seen as the
foundation of the Danelaw...
- for not
paying the
weregild. The
Danish king Hroðgar, who was
married to Wealhþeow, a
Wulfing woman,
graciously paid the
weregild, and when
Beowulf arrived...
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weregild was set too high, and so Ecgþeow was
banished and had to s****
refuge among the Danes. The
Danish king Hroðgar
generously paid the
weregild,...
- Guthrum's
territories as well as
agreements on
peaceful trade, and the
weregild value of its people. In 866, the
Great Heathen Army
landed in East Anglia...
- his earls, and all his people, both
those with a
weregild of 1,200
shillings and
those with a
weregild of 200 shillings, both
ordained and layman, in England...
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Irish equivalent of the
Welsh galanas and the Anglo-Saxon and
Scandinavian weregild, a form of
tribute paid in
reparation for
murder or
other major crimes...
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might also be a form of
payment that
could be made instead—such as the
weregild which in
early Germanic society could be paid to the victim's
family in...
