<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up wergeld in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up wergeld in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> <P> Weregild (also spelled wergild, wergeld (in archaic / historical usage of English), weregeld, etc .), also known as man price, was a value placed on every being and piece of property, for example in the Frankish Salic Code . If property was stolen, or someone was injured or killed, the guilty person would have to pay weregild as restitution to the victim's family or to the owner of the property . </P> <P> 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 payment was typically made to the family or to the clan . </P>

Among the barbarian tribes what was the wergeld