Noun:

ਅਰਲ, ਗਿਣਤੀ,

eorl's Usage Examples:

Scholars have disagreed on the military value of the ceorl, but it.

The title originates in the Old English word eorl, meaning "a man of noble birth or rank".

"Chorlegh", appeared in the 13th century, with the likely derivation coming from ceorl and leah, meaning a peasants" clearing.

Notwithstanding the efforts of Frederic Seebohm to find the origin of villeinage in the status of the serfs who worked for Roman masters upon British farms long before the Teutonic immigrations began, an older theory still holds the field, namely, that the abject villeins of Norman days were descendants of free–born ceorls of Anglo–Saxon stock.

In the eleventh century the term eorl, today"s earl, replaced that of ealdorman, but this reflected a change in.

Ahte ic fela wintra folgað tilne,holdne hlaford, oþþæt Heorrenda nu,leoðcræftig monn, londryht geþah,þæt me eorla hleo ær gesealde.

occasionally also abbesses and priests; on the secular side ealdormen (or eorls in the latter centuries) and thegns.

The similarity between "Ceorl" and the personal name "Charles" is no accident: "Charles", "ceorl" and "churl", along with the modern German.

Both names derive from Old English term eorl, meaning "nobleman" or "chieftain".

The title ealdorman is Anglo-Saxon, while earl comes from Old Norse eorl.

by shadowy kings, then by a series of ealdormen (Latin duces, Old English eorl, modern English earl) and high-reeves (from Old English heah-gerefa).

were then entitled to honour, each according to his rank, whether noble [eorl] or ceorl, retainer or lord.

A treatise on social status needed to say that mere ownership of a gilded sword did not make a man a ceorle, the lowest rank of free men.