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death-price en · NOUN
Meanings
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(Germanic, historical) A monetary value assigned to a person based on their social rank, representing the compensation to be paid by an offender to the victim’s family in the event of unlawful killing.
Sad lays were sung about the beset king,
the vicious raids and ravages of Grendel,
[...] how he would never
parley or make peace with any Dane
nor stop his death-dealing nor pay the death-price.
1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 7:
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wergeld · bloodwite