Weregild
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Weregild, also known as man price, was a tradition in Germanic law whereby a monetary value was established for a person's life, to be paid as a fine or as compensatory damages to the person's family
Image of a murder by a minor and the subsequent paying of wergild, in Heidelberger Sachsenspiegel Cgm 165 fol. 11r. This is one of the only images of wergild payment from the Middle Ages.
Ætheling
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An Ætheling was in Anglo-Saxon England a prince of the royal dynasty eligible for the kingship.
Edgar the Ætheling
Hexateuch king