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Weregild

Weregild (also spelled wergild, wergeld (in archaic/historical usage of English), weregeld, etc.), also known as man price (blood money), was a tradition in Germanic law whereby a monetary value was established for a person's life, to be paid as a fine or as compensatory damages to the person's family if that person was killed or injured by another.

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Weregild

Nodes86
Edges85
Triples77
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.023256
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related to Modern · 35
Weregild → Alas, And, Anárion, Appendix, But Isildur, Deirdre, Dresden, Elendil, Elrond, Fastred, Files, Folcred, Gondor, Harry Dresden, II, In, In Jim Butcher's Dresden, Isildur, It, Ithilien
related to Medieval · 17
Weregild → Andvari, Andvari's Falls, He, Hreidmar, Hreidmar's, Hœnir, Iceland's Egil's Saga, In, Later, Loki, Odin, Otr, Saga, The, Their, Volsungs, Völsunga
related to Etymology and terminology · 15
Weregild → Both, Germanic, Germanic-speaking, In, Langobardic, Lex Salica, North Germanic, Old English, Old High German, Old Norse, Proto-Germanic, Several, The, West Germanic, Wolfgang Haubrichs
related to Amount · 6
Weregild → Anglo-Saxon, In, Migration, Saxons, The, There
related to overview · 3
Weregild → Frankish Salic Code, It, The

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wergild man law family payment father wergeld germanic also shillings pay hearthstone fine gold early roman death english monetary value

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wider-geldinstance ofcomparable replacement words0.80text
Weregildrelated to AmountThe0.60section
Weregildrelated to AmountThere0.60section
Weregildrelated to AmountSaxons0.60section
Weregildrelated to AmountIn0.60section
Weregildrelated to AmountMigration0.60section
Weregildrelated to AmountAnglo-Saxon0.60section
Weregildrelated to Etymology and terminologyThe0.60section
Weregildrelated to Etymology and terminologyProto-Germanic0.60section
Weregildrelated to Etymology and terminologyIn0.60section
Weregildrelated to Etymology and terminologyGermanic0.60section
Weregildrelated to Etymology and terminologyOld High German0.60section

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