| I knew that no weregild, as the Saxon calls it, would be enough to save me from the Cornishman. |
| During the reign of Charlemagne his missi dominici required three times the regular weregild should they be killed whilst on a mission from the king. |
| It seemed as if the old practice of the weregild had been unexpectedly revived. |
| Early Germanic law reflects a hierarchy of worth within the society of free men, reflected in the differences in weregild. |
| 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. |
| Technically this amount cannot be called a weregild, because it was more akin to a reimbursement to the owner for lost or damaged property. |
