Words include ericfine in Ireland, galanas in Wales, veriraha in Finnish, vira (" вира") in Russia and główszczyzna in Poland.
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The same concept outside Germanic culture is known as blood money. The word survives in English in the word "yield" an equivalent reconstruction in Modern English of the term would therefore be *manyield or *wereyield. återgälda (retribute, return favour), gengäld (in return/exchange), vedergälda (revenge), and the formal/legal term gäldenär (geldeneer, referring to someone who is indebted). "-Gäld" is also a constituent of some Swedish words, having the same meaning: e.g. The Danish word gæld and Norwegian gjeld both mean "debt". Geld or Jeld was the Old English and Old Frisian word for money, and still is in Dutch, Frisian, German and Afrikaans. The word weregild is composed of were, meaning "man", and geld, meaning "payment or fee", as in Danegeld.
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Look up were-, geld, or gild in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Payment of the weregild was gradually replaced with capital punishment due to Christianization, starting around the 9th century, and almost entirely by the 12th century when weregild began to cease as a practice throughout the Holy Roman Empire. No distinction was made between murder and manslaughter until these distinctions were instituted by the re-introduction of Roman law in the 12th century. Similar to the way a payment was made to family, it was also a family or kin group responsibility to ensure the payment for the wrong committed, especially if the offender is unable to cover the cost of the offense himself. The payment was typically made to the family or to the clan. Weregild payment was an important legal mechanism in early Germanic society the other common form of legal reparation at this time was blood revenge. The weregild was codified, for example, under Frankish Salic Code. It was assessed from the guilty party, payable as restitution to the victim's family.
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A weregild was a defined value placed on every man graded according to rank, used as a basis of a fine or compensation for murder, disablement, injury (or certain other serious crimes) against that person.