- A
fyrd was a type of
early Anglo-Saxon army that was
mobilised from
freemen or paid men to
defend their Shire's
lords estate, or from
selected representatives...
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regional lines, with the
fyrd, or
local levy,
serving under a
local magnate –
whether an earl,
bishop or sheriff. The
fyrd was
composed of men who owned...
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Grith Fyrd was a
radical alternative educational movement in
England during the 1930s. It
created two
permanent work camps, one at
Godshill in Hampshire...
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different system was used to
achieve similar ends, and was
known as the
fyrd. The
first recorded instance of a
Norse lething is
disputed among scholars...
- the
Battle of
Hastings (14
October 1066), in
which the
English army, or
Fyrd, was defeated,
Harold and his two
brothers were slain, and
William emerged...
- England,
where the
armies were
still composed of
regional levies,
known as the
fyrd,
which were led by the
local elites. In
military technology, one of the main...
- levy, or
fyrd, and it was upon this
system that the
military power of the
several kingdoms of
early Anglo-Saxon
England depended. The
fyrd was a local...
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Tusenfryd (lit. "Thousand Joys", also
Common Daisy) is an amu****t park at Vinterbro, Norway. The park is
located 20
kilometers south of Oslo. Two of...
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maintenance and
repair of
bridges and fortifications,
manpower for the army (
fyrd), and (eventually) the geld land tax. The hide's
method of
calculation is...
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definite demarcation between the
royal fyrd (royal army) and
those of the
local fyrd (local
defence force). The
local fyrd were
responsible for the construction...
