The Wulfings, Wylfings or Ylfings was a powerful clan in Beowulf, Widsith and the Norse sagas. While the poet of Beowulf does not locate the Wulfings geographically, Scandinavian sources define the Yl
The Wulfing navy on the move, an illustration from the poems on the Wulfing Helgi Hundingsbane
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.