Old English Dictionary Entry

Twelf-hynde

Related words: 8, 2, Th. i. 236, 10. Be xii-hyndum men. Gif hé sié twelfhynde, L. Alf. pol. 31, Th. i. 80, 14. Gif hió sié cirlisc mid .lx. scill. gebéte . . . Gif hió sié xii-hyndu .cxx. scill. gebéte, 18, Th. i. 72, 15. Be twelfhyndes monnes wífe forlegenum. Gif mon hǽme mid twelfhyndes monnes wífe, hundtwelftig scill. gebéte ðam were . . . Cierliscum men feówertig scill. gebéte, 10, Th. i. 68, 8-12. Twelfhyndes monnes burgbryce .xxx. scill . . . Ceorles edorbryce .v. scill., 40, Th. i. 88, 9-11. Twelfhyndes mannes wer is twelfhund scyllinga (cf. Ceorles wergild is on Myrcna lage .cc. scill. Ðegnes wergild is syx swá micel, L. M. L., Th. i. 190, 1. Twelf-hindus est homo plene nobilis, i. thainus cujus wera est duodecies .c. sol., L. H. 76, 4, Th. i. 581, 17. Twelfhinde, i. thaini, 70, 1, Th. i. 572, 22. See also L. W. I. 8, Th. i. 470, 14), L. E. G. 12, Th. i. 174, 13. Twelfhyndes mannes áð forstent .vi. ceorla áð, for ðam gif man ðone twelfhyndan man wrecan sceolde, hé biþ fullurecan on syx ceorlan, and his wergyld biþ si

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1 twelf-hynde

adj. As applied to a person, of the rank for which the wergild was twelve hundred shillings; applied to the wergild, that must be paid for a person of such rank. As will be seen from the passages given below, the twelfhynde man was a þegn, and his importance, as marked by the wergild and otherwise, was six times that of the ceorl:--Ǽnig mǽgð, xii-hynde oþþe twyhynde, L. Ath. wer may be supplied:--Hú man sceal gyldan twelfhyndes man (=twelfhyndes weres man a man with a wergild of twelve hundred shillings), L. E. G. 12; Th. i. 174, 12.

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ᛏᚹᛖᛚᚠ-ᚻᚣᚾᛞᛖ

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Th.: Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)

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