-
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...
-
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...
-
Ripuarian Franks,
specifies the
values of
various goods when
paying a
wergild in kind;
whereas a
spear and
shield were
worth only two solidi, a sword...
- then gave
Harthacnut a ship so
richly decorated that it
amounted to the
wergild that
Godwin would have had to pay if he had been
found guilty.
Bishop Lyfing...
- Saxonum, and
wergilds were set
based upon
caste membership. The
edhilingui were
worth 1,440 solidi, or
about 700 head of cattle, the
highest wergild on the...
- 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...
