Wergild

Last week a poster by the name of "wergild" had this to say about the "progress" under McDaniels. wergild wrote: denver is 20th in a 32 team nfl in scoring. so let's count up the mistakes the self appointed genius has made since taking over as dictator: ❋ Diehard_Broncosfan (2009)

In some particulars they were less enlightened than the laws of King Liutprand of Lombardy: they kept the old wergild, ordeals, trial by combat, and punishment by mutilation; and decreed death for relapse into paganism, or for eating meat in Lent- though here the priest was allowed to soften the penalty. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2009)

The church placed its own members on the wergild scale. ❋ Bernard M. Bass (2008)

The leader of the recent excavation, Martin Carver, argues that the value of grave goods might represent the ‘wergild’ man-price of the occupant. ❋ Carla (2008)

Carver argues that the wergild for a nobleman was 480 oxen, roughly equivalent to 7 oz 200 g of gold. ❋ Carla (2008)

In 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed, the Austro-Hungarian empire had no choice but to send an ultimatum to Serbia, demanding wergild for the Archduke, or promising war as the alternative. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They could ask for wergild, which was paid in cash, or they could take vengeance, which was paid in blood. ❋ Price, Anthony (1971)

Hugh's very old-fashioned – he doesn't want wergild. ❋ Price, Anthony (1971)

Since, then, family affection, the laws of honour and duty, and every recognised standard of life demanded that a kinsman should obtain a full wergild (or money payment) for his relative's death, unless he chose to take up the blood-feud against the murderer's family, we can hardly wonder that some of the heroes of early European literature are heroes of vengeance. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Beowulf: thou hast remembered the ancient alliance between Ecgtheow, thy father, and myself, when I shielded him, a fugitive, from the wrath of the Wilfings, paid them the due wergild for his crime, and took his oath of loyalty to myself. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Since a threefold wergild was still due to Howard for the slaying of ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Horse offered as wergild by Thorbiorn to Howard, 107 ❋ Unknown (N/A)

"No," said Guest, who distrusted Thorbiorn, "thou shalt pay here, and now, fully; and I myself will pay one wergild, to help thee in atonement." ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Guest gave him the one wergild (a hundred of silver), which Howard received in the skirt of his cloak; and then Thorbiorn paid one wergild slowly, coin by coin, and said he had no more money; but Guest bade him pay it all. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

In the second year Biargey again urged Howard to try for a wergild. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

[beowulf] paid wergild from his father to [hrothgar] by killing [grendel] and his mother. ❋ Herecy2007 (2004)