wergild


it means “man price”. it was an old form of revenge during the time when beowulf was written. usually it was paid by the giving of a man as payment for wrongs done, but sometimes it could be paid by services rendered.
beowulf paid wergild from his father to hrothgar by killing grendel and his mother.

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