Crossword-Solution: WERGELD
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| wergild | 1 answer |
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Archaic object pronoun
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Hint 1 meaning
The objective case of thou. See Thou.
Hint 2 anagram
EHET
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Sentences with WERGELD (5)
The compensation money (wergeld), which was quite different from the fine or fred,(21) was habitually so high for all kinds of active offences that it certainly was no encouragement for such offences.
When a quarrel took place, the community at once interfered, and after the folkmote had heard the case, it settled the amount of composition (wergeld) to be paid to the wronged person, or to his family, as well as the fred, or fine for breach of peace, which had to be paid to the community.
The wergeld [wer] of a king was an unpayable amount of about 7000s., of an aetheling [a king-worthy man of the extended royal family] was 1500s., of an eorl, 300s., of a ceorl, 100s., of a laet [agricultural worker in Kent, which class was between free and slave], 40-80s., and of a slave nothing.
The bishops came to have the same wergeld as an eorldorman: 1200s., which was the price of about 500 oxen.
The higher a man's wergeld, the higher was his legal status in the scale of punishment, giving credible evidence, and participation in legal proceedings.