ceorl \CHAY-orl\ - a freeman of the lowest rank in Anglo-Saxon England
wergild \WER-gild\ - the value set in Anglo-Saxon and Germanic law upon human life in accordance with rank and paid as compensation to the kindred or lord of a slain person
These both seem like the sort of thing I should have known already. The second was used in one of the examples for the first.
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