Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... fyrd - worthy ' , worthy , that is , of a place in the justice - court , the sheep - fold and the tribal fyrd or militia which turned out at the king's summons in time of war . He was wont to speak his mind out freely in the court of ...
... fyrd - worthy ' , worthy , that is , of a place in the justice - court , the sheep - fold and the tribal fyrd or militia which turned out at the king's summons in time of war . He was wont to speak his mind out freely in the court of ...
Page 85
... fyrd , were on his side ; perhaps there was something unsympathetic to lawless- ness and blood - letting in the very air of the island . Even the tournament – that substitute for private war , in which fully - armed knights jousted ...
... fyrd , were on his side ; perhaps there was something unsympathetic to lawless- ness and blood - letting in the very air of the island . Even the tournament – that substitute for private war , in which fully - armed knights jousted ...
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... fyrd . England's Norman and Angevin kings used this rude national militia more than once against their turbulent French - speaking nobles . At first it was confined to free men - for to the continental feudal mind there was something ...
... fyrd . England's Norman and Angevin kings used this rude national militia more than once against their turbulent French - speaking nobles . At first it was confined to free men - for to the continental feudal mind there was something ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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