[(60)] See Norman Conquest, i. 85-88. I have there chiefly followed Mr. Kemble in his chapter on the Noble by Service, Saxons in England, i. 162.
[(61)] See the whole history and meaning of the word in the article þegen in Schmid’s Glossary.
[(62)] See Norman Conquest, i. 89.
[(63)] Barbour, Bruce, i. 224:
“A! fredome is A noble thing.”
So said Herodotus (v. 78) long before:
ἡ ἰσηγορίη ὡς ἔστι χρῆμα σπουδαῖον.