Usually means: Compensation payment for someone's death.
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  1. weregild: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. weregild: Collins English Dictionary
  3. weregild: Wordnik
  4. weregild: Wiktionary
  5. weregild: Dictionary.com
  6. Weregild: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Weregild: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. weregild: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Weregild: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. weregild: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. weregild: FreeDictionary.org
  12. weregild: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. weregild: Legal dictionary

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  1. weregild: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (Weregild)

noun:  Alternative spelling of wergeld. [(historical, especially in Germanic law) Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, 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.]

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