ceorl

/chey-awrl/US // ˈtʃeɪ ɔrl //UK // (tʃɛəl) //

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n.名词 noun

The Teutonic race had a myth which explained the origin of the classes eorl, ceorl and thrall (earl, churl and slave).
It was the 'ceorl' who lived on 'gafol land,' 172 and to pay gafol was to do service, though of a limited kind.
The ceorl obtains the thegnly wergild if he has an estate rated for military purposes at five hides.
This status seems to be hereditary; the thegns sons are dearer born than are the sons of the ceorl.
If the bishop often insisted on the letter of this severe rule, he must have reduced many a free ceorl to beggary.