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hynden-mann

  • noun [ masculine ]
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hynden-mann, es; m.
The head man of a hynden
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  • Ðæt wé ús gegaderian á emban ǽnne mónaþ gif wé mágon and æmtan habban ða hyndenmenn and ða ðe ða teóþunge bewitan ... and habban ða xii [xi?] menn heora metscype tógædere

    [resolved:] that we gather to us once every month, if we can and have leisure, the hyndenmen and those who direct the tithings ... and let these eleven [the hyndenman and one from each tithing in the hynden of which he was the head] have their refection together,

    • L. Æðelst. v. 8
    • ;
    • Th. i. 236, 1-6
    • .
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v. preceding word; and cf. hundred-mann.
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v.  hynden.
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