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...

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...

Grith Fyrd was a radical alternative educational movement in England during the 1930s. It created two permanent work camps, one at Godshill in Hampshire...

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...

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...

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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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...

defence of the realm. The bulk of the Anglo-Saxon English army, called the fyrd, was composed of part-time English soldiers drawn from the freemen of each...

Posse comitatus, an indirect descendant of the Northern Germanic hird or fyrd system, the "citizen enforcer" band is either capable of acting lawfully...

local representatives of the monarch. The ealdorman commanded the shire's fyrd (army), co-presided with the bishop over the shire court, and enforced royal...

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...

England, where the armies were still composed of regional levies known as the fyrd. In military technology, one of the main changes was the reappearance of...

that no time can be lost and leaves Wessex in secret to summon Mercian fyrds. Lady Aelswith promises her that if she amasses her forces at Tettenhall...

the ealdorman to be the chief officer in a shire. He commanded the local fyrd and presided over the shire court alongside the bishop. As compensation,...

7000 and 8000 English troops. These men would have comprised a mix of the fyrd (militia mainly composed of foot soldiers) and the housecarls, or nobleman's...

Tusenfryd (lit. "Thousand Joys", also Common Daisy) is an amusement park at Vinterbro, Norway. The park is located 20 kilometers south of Oslo. Two of...

councils and of Spelthorne Borough Council. As well as the ancient county fyrd and militia, Middlesex military units have included the Middlesex Regiment...

Anglo-Saxon chronicle reports Ulfcytel Snillingr raised an East Anglian fyrd to meet Sweyn Forkbeard in battle. Sigvat records the presence of King Ethelred...

the first time, William supplemented his Norman cavalry by calling out the fyrd, the traditional force of English militia infantry, which besides increasing...

historian Tacitus as the centeni. They were similar in nature to the Anglo-Saxon fyrd. Freikorps (German for "Free Corps") was originally applied to voluntary...

as a defensive organization against invaders grew out of the Anglo-Saxon fyrd. In times of crisis, the militiaman left his civilian duties and became a...

enforced royal orders, presided over the shire court, and led the local fyrd (army). A sheriff administered each shire as the ealdorman's deputy. Shires...

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DR 143 at Gunderup, DR 209 at Glavendrup, and DR 277 at Rydsgård. Abthain Fyrd Thain Trinoda necessitas Britannica 1998. Keynes 2014, pp. 459–461. Northvegr...

Ubba who appeared in the Severn. At this time Wessex was defended by the fyrd, a force made up of the lords and commoners of the realm and raised on an...

differentiate between that of the paid warrior and the unpaid militia known as the fyrd. According to 12th century Danish historian Svend Aggesen, Cnut's housecarls...

burhs, began the construction of a navy, and organised a militia system (the fyrd), whereby half of his peasant army remained on active service at any one...

invading Viking army and the Anglo-Saxon army that was referred to as the fyrd. The scribes who wrote the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle used the term here to describe...

England, most of the Saxon army would have consisted of the inexperienced fyrd, a militia composed of free peasants. The shield-wall tactic suited such...