Hold (title)

Hold (or Hauld) is a title of nobility, used in Viking Scandinavia and England.

History

Holds were described as "noblemen of exalted rank" in Viking Northumbria by Frank Stenton, with a wergild of 4000 thrymsas, equivalent to a king's high-reeve.[1] Hold is described as a title just below the earl in Oxford Dictionary of Surnames.

gollark: oh dear.
gollark: If I was using Rust, actually, I could make the protocol into tightly packed bincode and thus save on network IO.
gollark: Hmm, wow, apparently the combination of inefficient EWO protocol and high concurrent client count means that under heavy load even nginx uses 5% CPU.
gollark: Hey, wait a minute, Node.js has worker threads now, I should useā„¢ this.
gollark: `player_websocket_connections[id].send(JSON.stringify({dead:true}))`

References

  1. Stenton, Frank M. (1971). Anglo-Saxon England (3rd ed.). Clarendon Press. p. 509. ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5.
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