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  • I had to kill one before the rest would let us take him, and for that killing I apologize to you Leferic-lord, but I will pay no bloodprice.

    THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

  • His own story is known to us all: he killed a man and refused to pay bloodprice, so the thanes made him outcast.

    THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

  • But the thane of the Split Pines Feirgrei demanded bloodprice, so the bloodprice had to be paid, else there would have been war between the clans.

    THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

  • But mostly the men he kills are not worthy men and do not deserve the bloodprice, so it is no true crime.

    THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

  • Our rhetoric says this is what we're about, and we are bleeding, but compared to the bloodprice necessary, we've only pricked our finger.

    Archive 2009-09-01 West End Bob 2009

  • Our rhetoric says this is what we're about, and we are bleeding, but compared to the bloodprice necessary, we've only pricked our finger.

    Afghanistan and the nature of hobby wars Boris 2009

  • Ael would bear the weight of murder, and sooner or later pay their bloodprice in the most intimate possible coinage: her own pain.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • Ael would bear the weight of murder, and sooner or later pay their bloodprice in the most intimate possible coinage: her own pain.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • Ael would bear the weight of murder, and sooner or later pay their bloodprice in the most intimate possible coinage: her own pain.

    My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000

  • Ael would bear the weight of murder, and sooner or later pay their bloodprice in the most intimate possible coinage: her own pain.

    My Enemy My Ally Diane Duane 2000

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  • One of the meanings (monetary compensation to the kins for the killing of a person in order to prevent a feud) has a synonym : "wergild" (or weregild or wergeld), which is in various English language dictionaries, and "diya" (or diyya) in muslim law.

    EDIT : trivet has put together a list for all those other terms: the price of a life

    January 5, 2013