What ground was actually occupied may have been assigned to each group and each family in the group by lot, and Eorl and Ceorl gathered round them their læt and slave as in their homeland by the Rhine or the Elbe.
The social distinction of the eorl was founded on the peculiar purity of his blood, on his long descent from the original settler around whom township and thorpe grew up.
An eorl could call upon the ceorl farmers for about forty days to fight off an invading group.
If a ceorl killed an eorl, he paid three times as much as an eorl would have paid as murderer.
The Eorl was hereditarily distinguished by birth, and the Ceorl was a simple freeman without any such distinction.
How the difference arose we do not know, but we do know that the Eorl had privileges which the Ceorl had not.
They were probably all of them Eorls, so that though every settler was either an Eorl or a Ceorl, some Eorls were also Gesiths.
And[14] teeorl of Angaeu waerd ded, and his sune Henri toc to the rice.
And te cuen of France to-daelde fra the king, and scae com to the iunge eorl Henri.
I telle ou for sothe, the bataille thus bigon Bituene Fraunce ant Flaundres, hou hue weren fon; 130 Vor Vrenshe the Eorl of Flaundres in prison heden ydon, With tresoun untrewe.
That ane fewe fullaris maketh ou so tome; Sixti thousent on a day hue maden fot-lome, With eorl ant knyht.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eorl" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
