Eorlcundman
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Eorlcundman is a noun meaning (historical) A kinsman of an Anglo-Saxon eorl.
Meaning
(historical) A kinsman of an Anglo-Saxon eorl.
Example Sentences
The eorlcundman was generally, though not necessarily, a freeholder;
The eorlcundman is worth his high wergild even if he be landless: the ceorl may attain to thegn-right and yet his children to the third generation will not be gesithcund.
And so, to Inisfallen and Cashel came the sons of the kings and sub-kings of Munster; and the sons of the privileged, although not royal, classes of airigh – the flatha, owners of landed property and counterparts of the eorls or eorlcundmen of later Anglo-Saxon times;
Word Forms
- eorlcundmen
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include eorl, ceorl, adeling, atheling, earldom, cyning.
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