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rád-stefn

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Substitute: A summons carried by a mounted person. The later Latin versions are: Si tainus ascendisset, ut seruiret regi et equitatus sni uice fungeretur in familia sua, and: Si þegen ita profecisset, ut regi seruisset et uice sua equitaret in missiatico regis. Perhaps an instance of such service is given in the following
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  • Án scírgemót sæt æt Ægelnódes stáne be Cnutes dæge cinges . . . and Tofig Prúda cóm ðǽr on ðæs cinges ǽrende,

      C. D. iv. 54, 8-13.
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