Weregild
noun
1.
(in Anglo-Saxon England and other Germanic countries)
2.
money paid to the relatives of a murder victim in compensation for loss and to prevent a blood feud.
3.
the amount of money fixed as compensation for the murder or disablement of a person, computed on the basis of rank.
noun
1.
the price set on a man’s life in successive Anglo-Saxon and Germanic law codes, to be paid as compensation by his slayer
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