>Re: Sandy Petersen and Roderick Robertson on the correct spelling of
>wergeld; it's difficult to speak of the 'right' spelling of words in the
>medieval period, especially for a language like Old English, which
>possessed a number of distinct dialects and changed considerably over time.
> But for what it's worth--J.R. Clark Hall's _Concise Anglo-Saxon
>Dictionary_ gives entries for the spellings wergeld, wergild, and wergyld.
>It does not, however, list any 3-syllable forms, like weregild or weregeld
>(or even wereguild, the spelling that started all of this).
Whoops, my copy of Hall is at home, and there I was at work. Mea culpa. That darned extra "e" probably slipped in from "Werewolf".
Roderick
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