wergeld

  1. Noun.  (archaic) In Anglo-Saxon and Frisian customary law, a reparative payment, usually demanded by the surviving kindred of a person guilty of homicide, according to the victim's rank.
  2. Noun.  (context, paganism) recompense. In current usage in Heathenry.

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