fyrd

Learned borrowing from Old English fyrd.

• IPA^(key): /fɝd/, /fɚd/, /fɪɹd/

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fyrd (plural fyrds)

1. (historical) In early Anglo-Saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition.
   • Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon Social Organisation:

     Below the king were the eoldermen, the ruling nobility. The eolderman was the king's 'viceroy' in a shire, responsible for administration and justice, for calling out the fyrd and leading its forces in the field.

• fyrdman
• landfyrd
• shipfyrd
• ferd

• IPA^(key): /fyrd/, [fyrˠd]

fyrd f

1. Alternative form of fierd