-
Weregild (also
spelled wergild,
wergeld (in archaic/historical
usage of English), weregeld, etc.), also
known as man
price (blood money), was a precept...
- not pay the
expected wergild,
Ecgtheow was
banished and
sought refuge among the Danes. The
Danish king
Hrothgar paid the
wergild and had Ecgþeow swear...
- feud was
either to pay a
wergild (Anglo-Saxon, "man-price") or to be banished.
Either Ecgþēow's
people could not pay a
wergild, or the
Wulfings refused...
- for crime. If he was
murdered then his
relatives were
entitled to his
wergild as
compensation from the murderer. Look up Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/weraz...
-
outside of clan groups,
which were
settled via
compensation in the form of (
wergild). This
reconstructed legal system also
excluded certain criminals by outlawry...
- People's Law, a high-reeve is
given a
wergild of four
thousand thrymsas, the same as a hold and half the
wergild of an ealdorman. Ann
Williams believes...
-
Eysteinn offered Eric as much of
Uppsala öd as he wanted, and Borghild, in
wergild for Agnar. Eric
proclaimed that
after such a
defeat he
wanted nothing but...
- sons Eyjólfr, Álfr, Hjörvarðr and Hávarðr to
approach Helgi asking for
wergild and the
return of the
booty Helgi had
taken from
their father. When Helgi...
-
fealty was prin****lly to
their king.
Their low
status is
shown by
their werġild ("man-price"), which, over a
large part of England, was
fixed at 200 shillings...
- can pay the
infinite wergild that
humanity owes for the
slighted divine honour, for
while the life he
forfeits to pay this
wergild on humanity's behalf...
