gesithcundman

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English gesiþcund man / mon.

Noun

gesithcundman (plural gesithcundmen)

1. A gesith.
   • 1830, John Allen, Inquiry into the Rise and Growth of the Royal Prerogative in England, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, page 149:

     The gesiths, gesithmen, or gesithcundmen, were the military companions or followers of the Anglo-Saxon chiefs and Kings.

   • 1874, William Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England in Its Origin and Development, volume I, Oxford: at the Clarendon Press:

     The penalty of the adultery of the gesithcundman goes to his lord, ‘according to ancient usage.’

   • 1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law:

     Now, if we might regard the gesithcundman as one of a class to whom ten hides or twenty hides had been allotted by King Ine on a system providing in this practical way inter alia for the night’s entertainments, it would be natural that the food rent of the unit of ten hides should be fixed.