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	Weregild - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The size of the weregild in cases of murder was largely conditional upon the social rank of the victim.
		Thralls and slaves technically commanded no weregild, but it was commonplace to make a nominal payment in the case of a thrall and the value of the slave in such a case.
		The word weregild is comprised of were, a word meaning "man" (as in werewolf) and geld, meaning "payment." Etymologically, were is related to the Latin vir, and the modern German Wehr, as in sich zur Wehr setzen, or "to give resistance".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wergild (308 words)

	Murder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		If the perpetrator refused to pay weregild, it was up to the family of the slain to extract it from the perpetrator, or take his life.
		In Nordic countries, the payment of weregild was used in homicide cases until the 16th century.
		While there were no more financial repercussions for this other than the normal rules of weregild, the killer in question suffered from a tremendous loss of trust and might be declared outlaw.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Murder (4243 words)

	Weregild (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The concept of weregild was a common one in the viking era.
		There was another way of settling killings: the payment of a fine, or "weregild." This could be levied by the jury (who would each get a small percent), or the case could be settled out of court.
		The payment of weregild was not simply a matter of paying a standard fine, though it was considered an honorable means of settling a score in the wake of a killing, if both sides were willing to settle for it.
	www.zianet.com /egil/nonfiction/weregild.html (539 words)

	The Death of Weregild (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shrugging, Weregild checked her belt, making sure the daggers were in place, and slipped the supple material of her artificial claws over her hands, feeling the warm material wrap around and hug close to her flesh, as if it were embracing her.
		Weregild stumbled over to the cave wall, her breath harsh and strained in her chest, her face and clothing smeared with blood and dust.
		Weregild screwed her eyes shut, tightened her grip on the hilt, and suddenly jerked the metal out away from her chest.
	www.yallp.com /users/majicatt/fantasy/story/death.html (3654 words)

	Weregild: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Murder is the crime of causing the death of another human being without lawful excuse, and with intent to kill or to cause grievous bodily harm....
		Slavery can mean one or more related conditions which involve control of a person against his or her will, enforced by violence or other forms of coercion....
		Ericfine (or eric-fine) was the celtic equivalent of the anglo-saxon and scandic weregild, a form of tribute paid in reparation for murder or other...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/we/weregild.htm (811 words)

	The Twilight Paths II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Weregild lingers by the door for a moment, her smile fading for a moment as she watched Carmilla move gracefully across the room and seat herself on the edge of the bed, singingly softly and twirling a stray thread around her finger.
		Weregild was aware of who Lancelot was, of course, as she was aware of anything that could effect her here in the Palace.
		Weregild barely understood the words--if she was not drowning in Carmilla's eyes, she was most definately slipping into dangerous waters.
	jashan.net /sites/facets/story/twi2.html (3467 words)

	The Twilight Paths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Weregild smiles at Jwik, then turns around, brushing a lock of hair back behind her ear, and motions with a faint jerk of her head for Carmilla to follow her over to the fire.
		Weregild chooses to muse by the fire, staring deep into the depths, perhaps communing with the firecreatures through the window opened by using the wood lying around on the Twilight Paths, or with her own self.
		Weregild smiles and tosses the drab rock she now holds into the underbrush to the side of the path.
	jashan.net /sites/facets/story/twi.html (3789 words)

	Weregild: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		...Weregild Weregild Weregild (Alternative spellings: wergild, wergeld, weregeld,...The payment of weregild was an important legal mechanism in early northern European societies,...
		...be either with his own life or with weregild, a reparational payment.
		The duke has a fivefold weregild, summons the nobles and clergy for purposes of deliberation, calls...
	www.encyclopedian.com /we/Wergeld.html (242 words)

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		Cruisers and the UWMH Invincible were firing on the Weregild with lasers and missiles, their accuracy utterly frightening.
		The Weregild was unharmed, although the missile barrage was bouncing it around a bit and slowing its advance.
		The batteries realigned quickly enough to catch the Weregild again, but it was now using the clouds kicked up from its own body intelligently, and in seconds had closed with the Mobile Headquarters Invincible.
	www.eyrie.org /~dvandom/ASH/ASH36 (3980 words)

	Weregild (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Weregild is a character of mine who developed spontaneously out of
		The enchantment on the gloves is also that they form to fit their wearer perfectly, can cannot be removed except by that person.
		Weregild rarely removes them except to eat and to bathe.
	www.yallp.com /users/majicatt/fantasy/characters/weregild.html (479 words)

	The Weregild (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Her hair was spiked with lime that reflected the faint light of the fire.
		Wiping the blood from his sword, and sheathing it, Weregild caught Chang by the arm, as he ran past at the head of a contingent of soldiers.
		This weregild I deem for you." She clasped the blade of my sword, so gently between her fingers, there streamed throughout my body such pain, such suffering that this world cannot imagine it.
	roxx.infinitusweb.com /downpour/fanfic.html (4437 words)

	The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, by Various eBook by BookRags
		Weregild, or Weregeld, was the price of a man’s head; which was paid partly to the king for the loss of his subject, partly to the lord whose vassal he was, and partly to the next of kin.
		The weregild of an archbishop, and of an earl, was 15,000 thrismas; that of a bishop or alderman, 8,000; that of a general or governor, 4,000; that of a priest or thane, 2,000; that of a king, 30,000; half to be paid to his kindred, and the other half to the public.
		The weregild of a ceorl was 266 thrismas.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/11705/13.html (452 words)

	Weregild (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The payment of weregild was an important legal mechanism in early northern European societies, such as those of the Vikings
		If you killed someone, then it was up to you to pay the family fair compensation (weregild) for the labor lost by the member's death.
		While there were no more financial repercussions for this other than the normal rules of weregild, the killer in question suffered from a tremendous loss of trust.
	7d27be0093106d240d92a3991c3a84f4.yo.ogarnij.pl /en/weregild (14156 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If a freeman lie with a freeman's wife, let him pay for it with his wergeld, and provide another wife with his own money, and bring her to the other.
		Weregild (Alternative spellings: wergild, wergeld, weregeld, etc.) was a reparational payment usually demanded of a person guilty of homicide or other wrongful death, although it could also be demanded...
		If anyone kills a woman with child, while the child is in her womb, he shall pay the full wergeld for the woman, and half the wergeld for the child, [which shall be] in accordance with the wergeld of...
	wergeld.iqexpand.com /index.php?title=Wergeld&redirect=no (402 words)

	Glorantha Digest: Weregild
		weregild is not a preventitive to murder, it is a compensation for a wrong.
		Kingroup splits weregild along the same lines - it is shared out among the whole
		weregild need be paid) to kill a man while defending your home, family, sworn
	glorantha.temppeli.org /digest/gd2/1995.08/0442.html (428 words)

	Weregild - TheBestLinks.com - Wergild, Murder, Slaves, Vikings, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Weregild - TheBestLinks.com - Wergild, Murder, Slaves, Vikings,...
		Wergild, Weregild, Murder, Slaves, Vikings, Ericfine, Glowczyzna, Anglo-Saxons...
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	www.thebestlinks.com /Wergild.html (193 words)

	Libertarianism and Punishment
		Historically, societies in which crimes were handled purely by restitution were highly collectivistic societies, in which the individual was regarded as of no value apart from his tribe or extended family (either the one to which he was born, or the one to which he was joined by marriage or chosen fealty).
		Barnett's failure to base his arguments on an ethical foundation has its most serious consequences here; it has caused him to have a blind spot on this issue, not realizing how incompatible his system is with respecting the rights of the individual.
		In historical societies implementing weregild, heads of tribes or extended families held nearly absolute power over their individual members, and an individual could not practically survive if not affiliated with such a group; this was a pervasive aspect of life in these societies, with the weregild system only one of the many causes of it.
	www.objectivistcenter.org /showcontent.aspx?ct=28&printer=True (1129 words)

	Weregild: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The payment of weregild was an important legal mechanism in early northern European societies, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		The size of the weregild in cases of murder (Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)
		Weregild was also known to the Celts, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/weregild (759 words)

	EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - View Single Post - Pc's legal problem - help wanted (my players stay ...
		Weregild, a saxon and nordic concept, is as Rhialto so ably describes (though I think he is historically off base a little with the guild court).
		I'd suggest your cartographer sues for an indemnity (against his weregild) and for damages to his business (no helper).
		The city magistrates question whether the boy's death was due to the negligence of the PCs, in which case they go to jail.
	www.enworld.org /showpost.php?p=460337&postcount=6 (364 words)

	The Budding Bowyer » Weregild in Modern Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Where the call for the destruction of another vampire is denied to Marius, wearupon Thorne enacts his right of weregild for the crime of his own murder (enacted by the judge) by taking the blood of the defendant.
		I know, odd example, and worth keeping in mind that weregild is not always about repayment in blood, it wasn’t in the example, and it’s not in today’s legal system.
		Cie also pointed me towards this link, which describes a similar regular set of meetings, in which weregild was normally sought between land-owners (and potentially tenants of the land).
	blog.yibble.org /2006/01/19/weregild-in-modern-society (665 words)

	Northvegr - Færeyinga Saga
		The Earl said it should be so: "I will give thee a weregild for each of the two brethren, a third weregild for Thrond's counsel against you, when he would have had you slain after he had slain your fathers, a fourth weregild you shall have because Thrond sold you into thraldom.
		Halfgrim shall go without weregild, because of the slaying of Breste, and his onslaught on sackless men.
		There shall no weregild be paid for Ossur, because he wrought no uprightly when he sat him down in thy heritage, where also he was slain.
	www.northvegr.org /lore/faereyinga/009.php (1493 words)

	William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson - Volsunga Saga
		Then he told his tidings to the king his father, and he again to the queen, and she for her part bids him get him gone from the realm, and made as if she would in nowise see him.
		But Sigmund said he would not drive him away, and offered her atonement of gold and great wealth for her brother's life, albeit he said he had never erst given weregild (1) to any for the slaying of a man, but no fame it was to uphold wrong against a woman.
		But Sigmund the king yet ruled his realm, and is deemed ever the greatest champion and king of the old law.
	www.marxists.org /archive/morris/works/1870/volsungs/chapters/chapter10.htm (434 words)

	Stories of Arda
		He dismounted and slowly walked, leading Weregild slowly down a path that was little more then a broken track through the softly dripping branches.
		In his memory the same track that wound through the mountains that sheltered the vales of Lossarnach was brought again to the life of a new spring and he was almost able to convince himself that he still heard, somewhere further along the path, the high, shining chimes of his Morwen’s laughter.
		Weregild whickered softly in warning and Thengel slowed his meandering steps.
	www.storiesofarda.com /chapterview.asp?sid=1722&cid=7179 (1050 words)

	weregild - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	www.onelook.com /?w=weregild (159 words)

	Dragonsfoot :: View topic - U2, Danger at Dunwater, by Browne/Turnbull (1982)
		Indeed, given this fact, the level range of 1-4 might be a bit low--groups at the low end may be in over their heads.
		Additionally, many players may feel no compunction to join the alliance if negotiations are begun--they may be unwilling to offer weregild for what they consider to be legitimately killed monsters, or they may feel the sahuagin menace doesn't affect land-dwellers.
		I remember one of them saying, "Man, here they are just training and preparing to fight a desperate battle to regain their homes, and we come in uninvited and kill a third of the tribe.
	www.dragonsfoot.org /forums/viewtopic.php?t=10949 (2933 words)

	Tucker's Blackstone: Of the Several Modes of Prosecution
		The weregild of a ceorl was 266 thrymsas, that of the king 30000; each thrymsa being equal to about a shilling of our present money.
		The weregild of a subject was paid entirely to the relations of the party slain: but that of the king was divided; one half being paid to the public, the other to the royal family.
		In Turkey this principle is still carried so far, that even murder is never prosecuted by the officers of the government, as with us.
	www.lonang.com /exlibris/tucker/tuck-523.htm (222 words)

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		Like that Weregild thing in Manhattan, but in circuits rather than statues." Peregryn steepled his fingers.
		It helped that he now tended to simply ignore anyone who addressed him as "Howard." "The spirit motivating the Weregild itself has definitely either dispersed or hidden so completely that I cannot sense it.
		They've written the whole Weregild event off as part of the CSV problem, so the paragangs haven't moved up much on the DSHA's 'to do' list." "Maybe we should move it up on our list?" Scorch suggested.
	www.eyrie.org /~dvandom/ASH/ASH14 (4495 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Weregild (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Weregild (428 words)

	Weregild: Definition of Weregild in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition - Wunder Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Weregild: Definition of Weregild in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition - Wunder Dictionary
		Weregild: Definition of Weregild in Webster's Dictionary 1913 Edition
		The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin.
	websters.wunderdictionary.com /dictionary/def/weregild.html (58 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Ine
		With the exception of the Kentish laws this code is the earliest extant specimen of Anglo-Saxon legislation, and for that reason is of particular interest.
		When matters in his own realm had been adjusted, Ine turned his attention to Withred, King of Kent, and at the head of a formidable army demanded weregild for the death of Mul (for Mollo), brother of Caedwalla.
		The Abbey of Glastonbury was erected by him, with the funds, it is thought, which came from the weregild collected from Withred.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07789b.htm (498 words)

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