wergeld

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their, 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, distinct from bloodwite.
 * 2)  Compensation thus determined and paid; a reparative payment.
 * 1)  Compensation thus determined and paid; a reparative payment.
 * 1)  Compensation thus determined and paid; a reparative payment.

Quotations

 * When a wife was killed, her wergeld went to her birth family, not to her husband.
 * A man who committed adultery with another man's wife had to pay the wronged husband one-tenth the amount of his wergeld.
 * When a wife was killed, her wergeld went to her birth family, not to her husband.
 * A man who committed adultery with another man's wife had to pay the wronged husband one-tenth the amount of his wergeld.
 * A man who committed adultery with another man's wife had to pay the wronged husband one-tenth the amount of his wergeld.

Translations

 * Finnish: sukusakko
 * Italian: guidrigildo
 * Polish:
 * Welsh: galanas (for homicide) or (for injury)


 * Arabic: دِيَة
 * Bulgarian: кръ́внина
 * Danish: mandebod
 * Dutch:, bloedprijs,
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * German:, Manngeld,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: ποινή
 * Hungarian:, vérpénz
 * Irish: airgead fola
 * Italian: guidrigildo
 * Latin: weregildum
 * Macedonian: крвнина
 * Ngazidja Comorian: diya
 * Old French: were
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: крва̀рина, крвнѝна, вражда
 * Latin:, vražda
 * Spanish: precio de la sangre, wergild
 * Swahili: diya
 * Swedish: mansbot
 * Tigrinya:
 * Ukrainian: ви́ра
 * Welsh: galanas
 * West Frisian: manneboet