Ceorl-boren

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ceorl-boren

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ceorl-boren
part. Country or free-born, common, low-born, opposed to þegen-boren noble-born :-- Ne þearf he hine gyldan má, sý he þegen-boren, sý he ceorl-boren he need not pay more for him, be he born a thane, be he born a churl, L. O. D. 5; Th. i. 354, 20. ceorl-boren
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