| It seemed as if the old practice of the weregild had been unexpectedly revived. |
| In Jim Butcher's Dresden Files novel Skin Game, Dresden offers John Marcone a cashbox of diamonds as weregild for an employee murdered by Deirdre Archleon. |
| The size of the weregild was largely conditional upon the social rank of the victim. |
| A classic example of a dispute over the weregild of a slave is contained in Iceland's Egil's Saga. |
| 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. |
| Technically this amount cannot be called a weregild, because it was more akin to a reimbursement to the owner for lost or damaged property. |
