- "farmhand"—has gone
through a
similar process to
reach its
present meaning). The
ċeorles of Anglo-Saxon
times lived in a
largely free society, and one in which...
- steapheah,
stonde ic on bedde, neoþan ruh nathwær. Neþeð
hwilum ful
cyrtenu ceorles dohtor,
modwlonc meowle, þæt heo on mec gripeð, ræseð mec on reodne, reafað...
-
steapheah stonde ic on
bedde neoðan ruh nathwær. Neþeð
hwilum ful
cyrtenu ceorles dohtor modwlonc meowle þæt heo on mec
gripe ræseð mec on
reodne reafath...
-
ealdorman of
Devon sometime before 878,
ultimately succeeding Karl, or
Ceorle, the
ealdorman in 851.
Throughout the 870s Odda's liege,
Alfred the Great...
-
needed to say that mere
ownership of a
gilded sword did not make a man a
ceorle, the
lowest rank of free men.
Replica helmet from
Sutton Hoo in Suffolk...
