This hundred-moot was held once a month, and was attended by four men and the reeve from every township, and also by the Eorls and Thegns living in the hundred.
They were probably all of them Eorls, so that though every settler was either an Eorl or a Ceorl, someEorls were also Gesiths.
The slaves would not fight, and if the slaves belonged to eorls who fought, then how comes it that Oswy can expropriate his nobles?
When the country was threatened the freemen flew to arms, under their eorlsand ealdormen; and on this force the king was obliged to rely.
The lands belonging to King Harold, and those of the Saxon eorls who had died fighting at Senlac, King William regarded as his own.
The king, then, granted manors to his followers, and to such Saxon eorls and thanes as were willing to hold their lands on the same conditions as the Normans.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eorls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
