-
Viking raiders to save a land from
being ravaged. It was
called the geld or
gafol in eleventh-century sources. It was
characteristic of
royal policy in both...
- The
Barranc de
Gàfols, also
referred as Pomeralet, is an
archaeological site in Ginestar, Catalonia. It is one of the most
important First Iron Age sites...
-
English ladle); Old
English forca from
Latin furca "fork" next to Old
English gafol; Old
English scamol "chair, stool" from
Latin scamellum beside native stōl...
- with the
sound of a gavel, a word
which may come from the Old English:
gafol (meaning "tribute").
Gavel would be
prefixed to any non-monetary payment...
-
English should grant the
tribute to the
Danes that they desired, and so a
gafol of £10,000 was paid them for
their peace. Yet it was
presumably the Danish...
-
ealdorman ofslagan æt Meldune. ⁊ on þam
geare man gerædde þæt man
geald ærest
gafol Denis****
mannum for þam
myclan brogan þe hi
worhton be þam særiman, þæt...
- (gabularii) or "
gafol-men", who were
still tied to the castle.
Other areas were let to
local landowners.
Eleven of the
twelve gafol-men died from the...
- the word "rent"
rather than "tax": the Old
English Orosius uses the word "
gafol",
which has the
meanings "tax, tribute, rent, interest".
Whitaker 1981,...
- a
thing without biological ****, such as
neuter seax ("knife"),
feminine gafol ("fork"), and
masculine cucler ("spoon"). That said,
there are
still ways...
- (Gafi a holdfast, and
ffordd a road),
though a more
recent derivation is
Gafol-ford
meaning tax/tribute ford. Others, however, have
suggested that Gafulford...
