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WERGILD, WERGELD

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 523 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WERGILD, WERGELD or WEE, the Anglo-Saxon terms for the See also:fine paid by, e.g. a murderer to the relatives of the deceased in proportion to the See also:rank of the latter. The wer was See also:part of the See also:early See also:Teutonic and See also:Celtic customary See also:law, and represented the substitution of See also:compensation for See also:personal See also:retaliation, resulting from the rise in authority of the See also:power of the community as such.

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