-
Germanic king's
warband (cf.
Vulgar Latin *dructis, OHG truht, Old
English dryht)
whose members also had
duties in
their lord's
household like a
royal retinue...
- List of
names of Odin List of
names of
Freyr Swanton, p. 133
Derived from
dryht ("troop", "company"),
emphasizing a noble's role as lord of a band of warriors...
- in
nebbed 'corpse bed', and in dryhtné 'dead body of a warrior',
where dryht is a
military unit.
Thorin Oakenshield's
Elvish sword from Gondolin. Parma...
-
dryht‐sele dynede, •
Denum eallum wearð, ceaster‐būendum, • cēnra gehwyl****,
eorlum ealu‐scerwen. The
noble hall
broke into a din; the
Danes all were...
- for the
comitatus is
reconstructed as *druhtiz, with Old
English forms dryht and druht, and
Scandinavian drótt.
Equivalents highlighting different features...
- been
trying to play on an Anglo-Saxon idea of a
social construct called a
dryht. The
argument goes that,
according to Anglo-Saxon ethos, a good king is...
-
Rostyslav Vatseba, "between the Elbe and
Saale rivers the
heterachical dryht-type
state existed during the
reign of
Miliduch (before 806). The local...
