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fyrd

Anglo-Saxon local militia in Britain. All freemen were obliged to defend their shire but, by the 11th century, a distinction was drawn between the great fyrd, for local defence, and the select fyrd, drawn from better-equipped and experienced warriors who could serve further afield.
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11) [ETH]a waes [THORN]aer eft gesomnad micel fyrd Indiscra monna [THORN]aera elreordigra [THORN]e [eth]a lond then was there again gathered great army of Indian people of the barbarous who the land budon & we [THORN]a wi[eth] [THORN]aem gefuhton inhabited and we then against them fought 'then again a great army of barbarous Indian people who inhabited the land was gathered there and then we fought against them' (coalex,Alex:23.
Categorial heterogenity: Old English determiners * by Bartnik, Artur / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
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