Cyne-gild
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - cyne-gild
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- cyne-gild
- Substitute: The fine paid for slaying a king. It consisted of two parts, the wergild, which belonged to the kindred (mágas), and the cyne-bót, of like amount, which belonged to the people (leóde):--For þám cynedóme gebirað óðer swilc tó bóte on cynegilde (cf. cynges gild, 180, 2), Ll. Th. i. 190, 8. [Cf. the entry in the Chronicle underthe year 694, which mentions the payment made to Ine by the men of Kent in atonement for the burning of Mul.] cyne-gild