| Henry II's attempt to reconstitute the fyrd in 1181 indicates that the system was still considered valuable. |
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| In any case, by the beginning of September, Harold's supplies and the military obligations of the fyrd had been used up. |
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| Therefore the realm's strength would consist of the king with his own personal war-band, or fyrd, aided by the fyrds of his ealdormen and thanes. |
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| The sum of the forces of these leaders with the king's household troop constituted the fyrd. |
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| Eadmund and his fyrd, caught out by the speed of the campaign, surrounded Olaf at Leicester. |
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| In theory all freemen of Anglo-Saxon England were under an obligation to serve in the fyrd when called upon. |
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| Alfred and his successors had dealt with the problem by instituting the fyrd and military obligation was measured in hides. |
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| These men appear to be mercenaries given garrison duties to protect towns in potential danger who had already provided men for the fyrd. |
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| Hence it has been suggested that there was a great fyrd and a select fyrd, the latter based on the 5-hide unit, and better trained and armed. |
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| The fyrd was raised by selective recruitment, rather than a general levy, usually drawing one man for every five hides of land. |
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| The scale of service demanded by Alfred and his descendants was unprecedented, the garrisons of the burghs alone represented a standing army of almost 30,000 without the fyrd. |
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| On the 14th October 1066, much of Harold's tiny force was made up of the housecarls of his most powerful magnates because the fyrd had been disbanded. |
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| If the money went straight to the king he could call out the fyrd, collect the money and then disband the fyrd, lining his own coffers as William Rufus did after the Conquest. |
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| It was probably the duty of the ealderman, or sheriff, to call out and lead the fyrd. |
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| It was the basis of the earliest taxation and the basis for mustering the primitive English militia, the fyrd. |
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| By the end of the tenth century, a system of military service had developed in which every unit of five hides was responsible for providing and equipping one man for the fyrd. |
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| In England, it developed during the Middle Ages from the Anglo-Saxon fyrd. |
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| As a whole, England could furnish about 14,000 men for the fyrd, when it was called out. |
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| Like some marauding Saxon fyrd it has conquered Birmingham and Stoke, and lately moved on to Stafford, Lichfield and Tamworth. |
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| The fyrd and the housecarls both fought on foot, with the major difference between them being the housecarls' superior armour. |
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| A few ships were blown off course and landed at Romney, where the Normans fought the local fyrd. |
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| The rest of the army was made up of levies from the fyrd, also infantry but more lightly armoured and not professionals. |
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| The housecarls were replaced with members of the fyrd, and the shield wall held. |
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| Fines imposed for neglecting the fyrd varied with the status of the individual, landholders receiving the heaviest fines and common labourers the lightest. |
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| Large regions could be devastated before the fyrd could assemble and arrive. |
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| The fyrd was composed of men who owned their own land, and were equipped by their community to fulfil the king's demands for military forces. |
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| It appears that the hundred was the main organising unit for the fyrd. |
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| To maintain the burhs, and to reorganise the fyrd as a standing army, Alfred expanded the tax and conscription system based on the productivity of a tenant's landholding. |
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| The fyrd usually served for two months, except in emergencies. |
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| It was the responsibility of the shire fyrd to deal with local raids. |
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| Now of course, Cameron wants to use the Fyrd to defend us, and cannot recruit enough, and yet they say that Corbyn is the threat to national security. |
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