"They arrived with their mail shirts glittering, silver-shining links clanking an iron song as they came. Sea-weary still, they set their broad, battle-hardened shields in rows along the wall... Their armour rang; their ash-wood spears stood in a line, grey-tipped and straight..."
Beowulf
Alfred the Great
Warlord: Ealdorman
Hearthguard: Thegns
Warriors: Ceorls
Levy: Geburs
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