Wlite-weorþ

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wlite-weorþ

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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wlite-weorþ
n. Ransom or compensation paid for a person, the amount being determined by the person's appearance (wlite; see the passages from the Laws under wlite; I.) :-- Cóm tó him án wydewe, seó sǽde him ꝥ hire sunu wǽre gelǽded in hæftnýde . . . and bæd þone Godes wer ꝥ hé hire his wliteweorþ (pretium) gesealde, ꝥ heó mihte hire sunu mid álýsan, Gr. D. 179, 21. wlite-weorþ
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