The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weregild \Were"gild`\, n. [AS. wergild; wer a man, value set on
a man's life + gild payment of money; akin to G. wehrgeld.
[root]285. See Were a man, and Geld, n.] (O. Eng. Law)
The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man
killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly
to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It
was paid by the murderer. [Written also weregeld,
weregelt, etc.]
--Blackstone.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of wergeld English)
Usage examples of "weregeld".
They killed my uncle and refused to pay weregeld so I called them out at the Allthing Feast.
Cerdic, none the wiser, hastened to pay weregeld, giving Amlodd two bars of gold, which he packed away with a secret smile.
Were-geld, the permissible compensation for injury, he would not accept, even if the Gharr understood what weregeld was, which they did not.