wergild

/wur-gild, wer-/US // ˈwɜr gɪld, ˈwɛr- //UK // (ˈwɜːˌɡɪld, ˈwɛə-) //

巫术

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : money paid to the relatives of a murder victim in compensation for loss and to prevent a blood feud.
- : the amount of money fixed as compensation for the murder or disablement of a person, computed on the basis of rank.

Within the ceorlisc class we find similar subdivisions, though they were not marked by a difference in wergild.
This step is taken when the State compels the parties to enter into an agreement on the basis of the wergild.
With the institution of wergild the entire matter becomes one of civil law.
He is thus far a person that he has a small wergild but possibly he is bound to the soil.
We may have thegns who are nobodys thegns, or else we may have persons entitled to the thegnly wergild who yet are not thegns.