Heáh-geréfa

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

an;

heáh-geréfa

m. A high reeve, reeve of high rank. Kemble, Saxons in England, ii. 156, observes of this word, 'It is a name of very indefinite signification, though not of very rare occurrence. It is obvious that it really denotes only a reeve of high rank, I believe always a royal officer; but it is impossible to say whether the rank is personal or official; whether there existed an office called heáhgeréfscipe having certain duties; or whether the circumstance of the shire or other reeve being a nobleman in the king's confidence gave to him this exceptional title. I am inclined to believe that they are exceptional, and perhaps in some degree similar to the Missi of the Franks, officers dispatched under occasional commissions to perform functions of supervision, hold courts of appeal, and discharge other duties, as the necessity of the case demanded; but that they are not established officers found in all the districts of the kingdom, and forming a settled part of the machinery of government.' See also Stubbs' Const. Hist. i. 125, 343. Héhgeréfa proconsul, Ælfc. Gl. 106; Som. 78, 58; Wrt. Voc. 57, 38. Befora undercyningum l héhgeroefum ante præsides, Mk. Skt. Lind. 13, 9. Héghgeroefa comes, Rtl. 193, 9. Cyninges heáhgeréfan gild iiii þúsend þrymsa the 'wergild' of a king's high reeve four thousand 'thrymsas,' L. Wg. 4; Th. i. 186, 8: Chr. 778; Erl. 55, 26: 779; Erl. 55, 36: 1001; Erl. 136, 6, 8, 23, 24: 1002; Erl. 137, 29. heah-gerefa