Examples of 'fyrd' in a sentence
Meaning of "fyrd"
fyrd (noun): In historical contexts, a fyrd was a type of Anglo-Saxon army raised for national defense or military campaigns
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- In early Anglo-Saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition.
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Do not provide him with a readymade fyrd.
The fyrd will remain outside.
I will let the fyrd into the town.
You will raise the fyrd.
Raise a fyrd at least.
He commands the largest fyrd.
My army against a fyrd of peasants.
You are to raise the fyrd.
I expect the fyrd of Mercia to be at our side.
I am the man who can assemble the greatest fyrd.
It was the responsibility of the shire fyrd to deal with local raids.
Historians are divided about the people who were part of the fyrd.
These included the right to command the fyrd of the hundred in war.
It appears that the hundred was the main organising unit for the fyrd.
Large regions could be devastated before the fyrd could assemble and arrive.
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Grith Fyrd was never a large movement.
These men would have been a mix of the fyrd and housecarls.
The fyrd usually served for two months, except in emergencies.
That is not a fyrd.
It would set the Mercian Fyrd against the Wessex army.
I will raise the Devonshire fyrd.
My army against a fyrd of peasants, it will be a slaughter and my men will survive.
The Mercian Guard is leaderless without Eardwulf and the fyrd is disheartened and scattered.
A man from every five hides was expected to serve in the king 's fyrd.
I have ordered the Mercian fyrd to Tettenhall.
Your fyrd are here for you, Lady of Mercia.
Lord Aethelred has estate, a hearth guard and a fyrd to call upon.
His purse is full, his fyrd numbers one thousand men or more.
If I had an army to call upon, a fyrd to raise.
Of all the Ealdormen of Wessex, I am the man who can assemble the greatest fyrd.
An alliance . a hearth guard and a fyrd to call upon . Lord Aethelred has estate.
Of all the Ealdorman of Wessex, I am the man who can assemble the greatest fyrd.
If I had an army to call upon, a fyrd to raise, I would prove it.
Odda . you will do as I command . You will raise the Somerset fyrd.
If I had an army to call upon, a fyrd to raise, I would prove it. I do not.
I do not . If I had an army to call upon, a fyrd to raise.
What is this plan, Lord, tell me? I will raise the Devonshire fyrd.
