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twelf-hynde

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twelf-hynde, adj.
As applied to a person, of the rank for which the wergild was twelve hundred shillings; applied to the wergild, that must be paid for a person of such rank. As will be seen from the passages given below, the twelfhynde man was a þegn, and his importance, as marked by the wergild and otherwise, was six times that of the ceorl
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  • Ǽnig mǽgð, xii-hynde oþþe twyhynde,

    • L. Ath. v. 8, 2
      • ;
    • Th. i. 236, 10.

  • Be xii-hyndum men. Gif hé sié twelfhynde,

    • L. Alf. pol. 31
      • ;
    • Th. i. 80, 14.

  • Gif hió sié cirlisc mid .lx. sciłł. gebéte . . . Gif hió sié xii-hyndu .cxx. sciłł. gebéte,

    • 18
      • ;
    • Th. i. 72, 15
      • .

  • Be twelfhyndes monnes wífe forlegenum. Gif mon hǽme mid twelfhyndes monnes wífe, hundtwelftig sciłł. gebéte ðam were . . . Cierliscum men feówertig sciłł. gebéte,

    • 10
      • ;
    • Th. i. 68, 8-12.

  • Twelfhyndes monnes burgbryce .xxx. sciłł . . . Ceorles edorbryce .v. sciłł.,

    • 40
      • ;
    • Th. i. 88, 9-11.

  • Twelfhyndes mannes wer is twelfhund scyllinga

    (cf. Ceorles wergild is on Myrcna lage .cc. sciłł. Ðegnes wergild is syx swá micel,L. M. L.; Th. i. 190, 1. Twelfhindus est homo plene nobilis, i. thainus cujus wera est duodecies .c. soł., L. H. 76, 4; Th. i. 581, 17. Twelfhinde, i. thaini, 70, 1; Th. i. 572, 22. See also L. W. I. 8; Th. i. 470, 14),
    • L. E. G. 12
      • ;
    • Th. i. 174, 13.

  • Twelfhyndes mannes áð forstent .vi. ceorla áð; for ðam gif man ðone twelfhyndan man wrecan sceolde, hé biþ fullurecan on syx ceorlan, and his wergyld biþ six ceorla wergyld,

    • L. O. 13
      • ;
    • Th. i. 182, 19-22.

  • xii-hyndum men twyfealdlíce be ðæs syxhyndan bóte,

    • L. Alf. pol. 39
      • ;
    • Th. i. 88, 4.

  • Æt twyhyndum were mon sceal sellan tó monbóte .xxx. sciłł. . . . æt twelfhyndum .cxx. (cf. ad manbotam de twelfhindo, i. thaino .cxx. soł., L. H. 69; Th. i. 572, 19),

    • L. In. 70
      • ;
    • Th. 146, 14.

  • Æt twelfhyndum were gebyriaþ twelf men tó werborge,

    • L. E. G. 12
      • ;
    • Th. i. 174, 18, 24
      • .

  • Cnut cing grét . . . ealle míne þegnas twelfhynde and twihynde,

    • Chart. Th. 308, 16:
    • Chart. Erl. 229, 20.
  • In the following passage where the word is used without a noun perhaps wer may be supplied

    Hú man sceal gyldan twelfhyndes man

    (=twelfhyndes weres man a man with a wergild of twelve hundred shillings ),

    • L. E. G. 12
      • ;
    • Th. i. 174, 12.
Similar entries
v. six-, twi-hynde.
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v.  six-hynde.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “twelf-hynde.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/31200.

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