I left my ceorls and horses on the other side the river, and must go after them.
The contrast between the free ceorls tilling their own land and the band of military followers, who are always considered as personally dependent--this contrast is a marked one.
The law of Kent is constructed on this very basis: it is the law of free ceorls subjected to a certain manorial authority which has not been able to strike very deep roots in this soil.
The ceorls of Saxon times are the direct descendants of Roman slaves and coloni, some of them personally free, but all in agrarian subjection.
He does not try to picture a kind of political Arcadia in Saxon England, but there is no more talk about the rightless condition of the ceorls or the predominance of aristocracy.
Here a groan, half-stifled and wrathful, broke from the ceorls at the end of the hall.
Then follows in English (but hardly the English of the year 900) a statement of the services which the ceorls shall do 'to Hysseburnan.
But a rule which valued the oath of a single thegn as highly as the oath of six ceorls would make the ceorl but a poor witness and tend to keep him out of court[170].
The ceorls tended to sink to the position known later as villeinage.
The community was divided into Thames or gentry, Ceorls or freemen, and serfs.
Here are written the services that the ceorls shall do at Hysseburne.
Serfdom and services of ceorls on, 162 Ine, Laws of (A.
Here are written the gerihta 'that the ceorls shall do at Hysseburne.
Hence, since the ceorls doubtless formed the bulk of the population, it has been thought that the Anglo-Saxon armies of early times were essentially peasant forces.
No doubtceorls took part in military expeditions, but they may have gone as attendants and camp-followers rather than as warriors, their chief business being to make stockades and bridges, and especially to carry provisions.
The exact relationship between the Gesiths and the Ceorls cannot be ascertained with certainty.
Below the Ceorls were slaves taken in war or condemned to slavery as criminals.
In a former passage I have remarked of the Anglo-Saxon ceorlsthat neither their situation nor that of their descendants for the earlier reigns after the Conquest appears to have been mere servitude.
Cuthbert, I have ordered every one of my theows and ceorls to be obedient to your warning if they wish to preserve their allegiance to Aescendune, or to escape chastisement, and I think none of them are likely to be abroad tonight.
At last one of the ceorls rose up, and spoke with some hesitation: "I think, my lord, that they intend to avenge themselves upon the Dane folk.
There, then, was the supper table bountifully spread, and the theows and ceorls awaiting the arrival of their lord.
All the necessary preparations for departure were shortly made--the theows and ceorls were collected together, beasts of burden selected to carry the necessary baggage, the wallets filled with provisions.
All the ceorls and serfs will be at the Hall, and the prince will share the entertainment.
The villeins, who worked the farm land as their ancestor ceorls had, now were so bound to the land that they could not leave or marry or sell an ox without their lord's consent.
At length one of the ceorls came riding in to say that the Bishop, with his retinue, was approaching the village, and Father Cuthbert went out to meet him.
Close by the path they took, the hall was rapidly rising to more than its former beauty, for not only had the theows and ceorls all shown great alacrity in the work, but all the neighbouring thanes had lent their aid.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ceorls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
