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n. (alternative spelling of wergeld English)
Usage examples of "wergild".
Then, to the astonishment of all Torvaldsland, and most to that of Svein Blue Tooth, the Forkbeard, redoubtable, after earning six talmits in the contests, delivered to his hall the very wergild no man had supposed it possible to pay, and had then, arrogantly, before the high seat of the Blue Tooth itself, refused to pay!
We can work out a treaty: shares and taxation, rights and duties, rules about wergilds and freedmen.
I'll get the Brotherhood's wergild for her, the price that Rabe deserves for his loss.
She would complete Larindolian's bidding, find Bardo, and gather the wergild that she had promised Mair, the payment for Rabe's poor mother.
But if Rhys did it now, as a wergild price, then Kurag would be blameless.