Eórod
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - eórod
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- eórod
- es; a. A band, legion, troop; turma, légio :-- Wíse men tealdon án eórod to six þúsendum, and twelf eórod sind twá and hundseofontig þúsend wise men have reckoned a legion at six thousand, and twelve legions are seventy-two thousand, Homl. Th. ii. 246, 28, 29, 25 : Jud. Thw. 161, 36.