Weregild (also spelled wergild, wergeld (in archaic/historical usage of English), weregeld, etc.), also known as man price (blood money), was a precept...

killed three of Arthur's soldiers, and Arthur demands a herd of cattle as wergeld for his men. Cadoc delivers them as demanded, but when Arthur takes possession...

much economic or political power in Scandinavia, they were still given a wergeld, or a man's price: there was a monetary penalty for unlawfully killing...

legally entitled to atonement reparation of three times their "Weregild" (Wergeld) value from a guilty person or party. Such knights were known as Edelfreie...

would not need any oath-helpers because his wergeld equaled 1200 shillings. However, a ceorl (200 shilling wergeld) would need oath-helpers. When a defendant...

enjoyed certain advantages, entitled to royal assistance and protection; his wergeld was three times that of an ordinary Frank; the slayer of a Frank was paid...

life and all that he owns ... or to clear himself by the king's [lord's] wergeld." Women were considered the legal property of their husbands, and so a...

regis") of churches, widows, orphans, and the like. He enjoyed a triple "wergeld", but had no definite salary, being remunerated by receipt of specific...

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times they led the host to battle. The missi were protected by a triple wergeld and resistance to them was punishable by death. In addition special instructions...

principles embodied in law codes, which were largely composed of schedules of wergeld or compensation, are evident. "Recidivism was always possible, and the...

Wifmannes Beweddung VII Æthelred Wifmannes Beweddung *Historical Iudex Wergeld Iudex Wergeld II-III Edgar III Æthelred II-III Edgar I and III Æthelred Alfred-Guthrum...

following murders: the killer should instead pay wergeld (compensation) to the relatives of the victim. If no wergeld is paid, the killer has to bear the feud...

injuries, the Burgundian Code also incorporates the wergeld, another Germanic institution. Drew defines wergelds as "the sum at which a man was valued and by...

Frisionum are entirely concerned with schedules of fines (compositio) and wergeld, the compensations due victims or their kin, scheduled according to the...

Conflict Resolution". In Bothe, Lukas; Esders, Stefan; Nijdam, Han (eds.). Wergeld, Compensation and Penance: The Monetary Logic of Early Medieval Conflict...

93r–v English 29 No later than mid-10th Century Norðleoda laga (concerns wergeld in Northumbrian society) 93v–94r English 30 ? Wifmannes beweddung (Of a...

split cow') and Bretha Crólige ('Decisions concerning blood guilt'), the wergeld[not a Celtic term?] was specified exactly for men and women of different...

freeman lies with [another] free-man's wife, he shall pay [the husband] his wergeld and procure a second wife with his own money, and bring her to the other...

of St Augustine's Abbey and the bishop of Rochester.: 16–17 : 100  The wergeld ratios for churchmen in Æthelberht's code are similar to those of other...

Saxony he decreed that the freeman and the freedman should have an equal wergeld, wishing, as it seems, to make it perfectly clear that all the families...

Valhalla Valkyrie Viking Age Viking art Viking runestones Viking Age trade Wergeld Yggdrasil Ships and navigation Knarr Longship Viking ships Viking ship...

ceased to be an independent kingdom. The text comprises a list of the wergelds payable on the killing of people of different social statuses, with the...

wergeld to be paid in compensation for various murders: If a man slay a woman with child, he shall pay full wergeld for the woman, and half wergeld for...

week-end "weekend" ( < Eng < Gmc) welche wellingtonia weltanschauung welter wergeld wernérite werthérien western western-macaroni western-soja western-spaghetti...

compared this aspect of Jurchen customary law to the old Germanic practice of Wergeld. As a reward for putting an end to the feuds, Hanpu was married to a sixty-year-old...

received from Svyatopolk the towns of Buzhsky Ostrog, Duben, Czartorysk and wergeld of 400 grivnas from the other brothers, that is, 200 from Vladimir and...