Die mittelalterliche friesische Standesbezeichnung etheling

This article discusses the meaning of the rarely attested Old Frisian term etheling . Two interpretations have been presented: nobleman, which seems to be the obvious one, versus freeman. After consideration of all attestations extant as well as the previous debate on this question it is inferred that the term etheling represents a nobleman in the older attestations, a freeman in the younger ones. This conclusion has relevance as to the debate on the distinction of social ranks in medieval Frisia

European Socioeconomic and Political Studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy

• Approaches to Old Frisian Philology

  Rolf H Bremmer, Rolf H Bremmer Jr et al.•Approaches to Old Frisian Philology•1998

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