Crossword-Solution: WERGILD
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| Clue | Answers |
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| price set on a man's life, to be paid as compensation by his slayer | 1 answer |
| wergeld | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
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Sentences with WERGILD (5)
All that we know about him is contained in a few lines of Herodotus: that he flourished 550 B.C.; was killed in accordance with a Delphian oracle; and that _wergild_ was claimed for him by the grandson of his master, Iadmon.
How far the armed followers of a lord were entitled to compensation when the latter was slain is uncertain, but in the case of a king they received an amount equal to the wergild.
Here the wergild of the _ceorlisc_ class amounted to 100 shillings, each containing twenty silver coins (_sceattas_), as against 200 shillings of four (in Wessex five) silver coins, and was thus very much greater than the latter.
Again, there was apparently but one _gestiðcund_ class in Kent, with a wergild of 300 shillings, while, on the other hand, below the _ceorlisc_ class we find three classes of persons described as _laetas_, who corresponded in all probability to the _liti_ or freedmen of the continental laws, and who possessed wergilds of 80, 60 and 40 shillings respectively.
Within the _ceorlisc_ class we find similar subdivisions, though they were not marked by a difference in wergild.