In 9th century England, King Alfred's laws laid down the wergeld to be paid in compensation for various murders : If a man slay a woman with child, he shall pay full wergeld for the woman, and half wergeld for the dead fetus, in compensation for the husband's material loss.
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In return for these, the antrustion enjoyed certain valuable advantages, as being specially entitled to the royal assistance and protection; his " wergeld " is three times that of an ordinary Frank; the slayer of a Frank paid compensation of 200 " solidi ", that of an antrustion had to find 600.
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The second article raises wergeld values to a considerably higher rate than would normally be expected . " This is next, if a man is slain, all of us, Englishman and Dane at the same amount, at eight half-marks of refined gold, except the Anglo-Saxon and'Danelaw'social structures did not necessarily correlate, and so a carte-blanche simplification may have been the only way forward.
