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Blood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case of injury or to the victim's kindred in the case of homicide.

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feld teld veld seld weld held meld keld geld sheld yield hield wield bield field heeld speld fjeld geteld reweld
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