weregild

weregild (countable and uncountable, plural weregilds)

1. Alternative spelling of wergeld.
   • 1954 July 29, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, chapter 11, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC:

     "This I will have as weregild for my father, and my brother," he said; and therefore whether we would or no, he took it to treasure it. But soon he was betrayed by it to his death; and so it is named in the North Isildur's Bane.

wereġild n

1. alternative form of werġield