Hynden

Menurut Kamus Old English:

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hynden

f. A legal association of one hundred men. It will appear from the following passage that the hynden was an association of ten tithings :-- Ðæt wé tellan á x. menn tógædere and se yldesta bewiste ða nigene tó ǽlcum ðara geláste ðara ðe wé ealle gecwǽdon and syððan ða hyndena heora tógædere and ǽnne hyndenman ðe ða x. mynige tó úre ealre gemǽne þearfe and hig xi. healdan ðære hyndene feoh [resolved:] that we always count ten men together, and that the chief one should direct the nine in each of those duties that we have all agreed upon; and then groups of ten tithings and [in each such group] one chief man [hyndenman] who may admonish the ten [chiefs of tithings] to the common benefit of us all; and let these eleven keep the money of the hynden to which they belong, L. Æðelst.

Kata terkait: 3; Th. i. 230, 22-232, 3. On ðære hyndenne, L. In. 54; Th. i. 136, 11. v. next word; and see for a discussion of the term Kemble's Saxons in England, i. 242, sqq. hynden