Wergeld

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • 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.
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  • n. blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide.
  • n. Compensation thusly determined and paid; a reparative payment.
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    "The wergeld was an unsafe subject for a joke, as Gregory of Tours has shown with startling finality 8."
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