单词 | sixhyndman |
释义 | sixhyndmann. historical in later use. A thane of the middle order, having a wergild of six hundred shillings. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific ranks of common people > [noun] > person according to wergild sixhyndmaneOE eOE Laws of Ælfred (Corpus Cambr. 173) xxx. 64 Gif hit sie syxhynde mon, ælc mon to hloðbote lx scillinga & se slaga wer & fulwite. lOE Laws: Instituta Cnuti (Rochester) ii. lix. 73 In domo hominis quem Angli nominant..sexhændeman [L. homini sixhindo]. c1210 ( Leges Hen. I lxxxvii. §4 in L. J. Downer Leges Henrici Primi (1972) 266 Si quis occidetur cum [read in] hloþe, reddat interfector weram parentibus,..et omnes qui interfuerint blodbotam [read hloðbotam], sic[ut] emendent tpyfhyndeman [read twihindeman] xxx solidos, sixhindeman [c1225 sixhinde] xl [read lx] solidos. 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor ii. ix. 334 The Sexhendman was the Saxon Sixhyndmon. 1729 G. Jacob New Law-dict. at Hindeni The middle Class [were] valued at Six hundred Shillings, and called Sexhindmen. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. p. lxviii About the opening of the tenth century the Sixhyndman disappeared from the South-country upon the establishment of Thanage (Dienst) as the prevalent tenure. 1935 R. H. Hodgkin Hist. Anglo-Saxons II. 594 First, after the full thegns come a mysterious class of men who, in the Laws of Alfred, are graded with a wergeld of 600 shillings—six-hynd men. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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