sporgæld (OSw) noun

Literally, ‘discovery compensation’. It referred originally to compensation taken from a self-confessed killer, who confessed and offered compensation at the assembly. It later came to cover all cases in which single compensation was demanded from a known killer, as opposed to the higher compensation (tvæböti) taken in a case of morþ (‘murder’), unacknowledged killing (dulghadrap), unsolved killing or killing aggravated by other circumstances. Examples of this last are a man killing a woman, someone being killed in their own home, someone being ambushed, someone being killed when undertaking a legal house-search.

proof payment OSw SdmL Mb
single compensation OSw DL Eb, Mb
single compensation (from a known killer) OSw UL Mb
OSw VmL Mb Refs:

KLNM s.v. spårgäld; Schlyter 1877, s.v. sporgæld; SL DL40−41 note 12; SL UL119−20 notes 34−37; SL VmL, 91 note 41