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A form of wergeld — Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide; such a reparative payment or compensation.

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Meanings

nounweregild (countable and uncountable, plural weregilds)

plural weregilds

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of wergeld.

    "This I will have as weregild for my father, and my brother," he said; and therefore whether we would or no, he took it to treasure it. But soon he was betrayed by it to his death; and so it is named in the North Isildur's Bane.

    1954 July 29, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, chapter 11, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC
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