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What is a wergild?

What is a wergild? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Alternative spelling of wergeld
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In the charter of Hinestrosa the wergild for homicide is 500 sueldos.
Within the ceorlisc class we find similar subdivisions, though they were not marked by a difference in wergild.
To pay his wergild, he had to cover every piece of fur with gold earned from his father.
All of them seem to have the wergild of twelve hundred shillings.
If he has only 1 hide and cannot pay the tribute, his wergild was 80 shillings and then 70 if he was landless yet free.
In Rick Riordan's novel The Hammer of Thor, Hearthstone, an elf, must pay a wergild for his brother Andriron's death when they were children.

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