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A Theodish Word-Hoard
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Abanning (aet Bannung): notice, posting, official announcement
Abraidshot: man price, freedom price for a thrall
Aehte: deeming, whim
Aesir: tribe of sky gods
Aett: division, family, group, literally “eight”
Ale: a drink akin to beer
Alf: male ancestral spirit
Alewench: an honored position, held by female who serves in the hall; also Alemaiden, Byrelle
Alu: hallowing of ale
Althing: judicial assembly of all freemen of a tribe
Ambihsthyle: king’s servant
Anglesaxe: of the Anglo Saxons
Arrung: rank
Asatru: the neopagan religion of the Germanic peoples
Atheling: one who sacrally leads a tribe before a kingship, one who can trace his family lineage to the Gods, literally “othal lord”
Autochthonous: indigenous, literally self-emergent
Beorsele: informal drinking celebration
Beot: a formal style of boasting to accomplish a deed, also a prayer/song
Blot: a rite offering something to the gods
Blot bowl: vessel used to catch the sacrifice offered
Blotere: a high priest, literally “one who offers blood to the gods”
Bog: a deep swamp in which items tainted with ill luck are deposited to be ritually removed from middle earth
Brageful: first speech
Brylliup: wedding run
Byrele: Ale Maiden (at sumble)
Chapman: merchant
Churl/ceorl/karl: a simple freeman
Circigrith: sanctuary; a kings peace
Clann: group of rooftees (also sib/sipp)
Cniht: a child of freemen
College of arms: the body which supervises martial custom & Heraldry
Commitatus: warband
Compurgation: oath swearing
Criterial Thews: Life as a process of Ordeal; Worthing & Becoming in the Context of the Three Wynns - wisdom generosity and honor
Cult: a group of devotees
Cyning: King
Deathknell: a funeral observation
Deeming: a decree
Dis / Idis: a female ancestral spirit, also a mature female of a tribe who gives advice
Discthygen: hand attendant during sumble
Doom: the result of deeds, also a decision
Dreng: a mercenary
Drengscip: an institution of Theodism that allows non-tribesmen to be fostered amongst a tribe
Drengthreat: a group of drengs
Dryhten: a war leader
Existential Thews: Freedom of Conscience and Right Good Will
Faetfyllr: jug-filler (an attendant at sumble)
Faining: a religious rite
Fierdstemn: the king’s standing army
Forlatten: missing
Frith: natural peace, harmony, the peace enjoyd within a theod
Fyrd: the body of freemen who would be called into armed service
Fyrhring: the Normannii Fierdstemn; its martial arm, literally “band formed in the fire”, also a warrior guild
Gedefe: socially acceptable
Gedrythwita: Comrade in Arms; the Witan of Normandy
Gefrain: reputation
Gelafa: belief
Germanic: the Northwestern branch of the Indo-European peoples
Giftstool: the seat on which a lord hears oaths
Godi / Gythia: an Asatru priest
Goodfolk: folk who are informally part of a tribe, learners, friends
Greater Theodism: the part of Theodism which was never formally sworn into the web of oaths of the tribal communities of High Theodism
Grith: an enforced peace or conditional peace, as between different folk
Hallow: to make holy
Handfast: to join before marriage (engagement)
Heathen: one who believes in Gods of old, literally “dweller on the hearth-country folk”-Germanic and Celtic form
Height: to call, to name or appoint
Herulian: wizard
High Theodism: the formal tribal religions sprung from the Winland Rice
Hold Oath: the oath that binds lord and thane in a comitatus relation
Hof: Heathen church building / lands
Holies: religious relics (weoh)
Horn: drinking vessel
Hyrnboda: a King’s messenger, literally “horn bearer” herald
Husel: swine blot, a rite in which a worthy animal is ritually slaughtered
Innangard / utgard: those in the tribe vs. those outside
“In the Woods”: a period of religious retreat
Irminsul / Yggdrasil: the tree of life, the world column, world tree
Larcutha: a degree from WKS
Leman: “partner” in a relationship of the sexual kind, but not married
Leod: an informal group, a “tribe” of greater theodsmen, a formational theod in High Theodism
Links: left
Love: to give leave to
Luck: the spiritual wealth of a tribe or person
Lucky penny: the symbolic wealth, a penny found heads up
Magencraft: herulian craft, magic
Mains/Might: spiritual energy
Make: a companion, not necessarily sexual
Man: the gender-neutral term for mankind (wereman / woman)
Master of Revels: a king’s jester (Scop, Gleemon)
Master of the Games: referee for festival games
Mathel: meeting; informal, a group of a theod
Maypole: the representation of the world tree
Mead: a drink of fermented honey
Meadsel: a social gathering
Middle Earth / Midgard: Earth
Milady: term of respect to address a lady
Milord: term of respect to address a man
Moody Hill: a Theod of the original Winland Rice
Moot: a meeting for religious purpose
Myne: a toast in memory of someone or something
Needfire: a fire struck by friction
Normandy: the tribe and realm of the Normans
Oath helper: one who assists in a legal proceedings by testifying
Oathring: what a tribe swears its oathe on
OEtheland: A Jutish fostered shire and theod of Normandy.
Omen: devine sign
Ordeal: a challenge in the learning process
Orlay: history, literally ”that which has been laid down”
Orletta: champion
“Out of thew”: someone who violates the custom of a tribe or is not in a tribe’s web of oaths
Outer hall: the place there non-tribesmen may enter to learn
Outlaw: one who has broken customary laws, a criminal
Pagan: one who believes in many gods– term reserved usually for neo-pagan community; a Mediterreanean term
Page: a personal attendant, usually a youth
Peer: a nobleman (kings, lords, thaines)
Reeve: a representative Refscir-office
Recht: right
Retro-tribal: taking root from the past
Rice/Reik-realm: a political entity greater than a Theod
Right good will: acting with honor and seem
Rooftree: a family unit
Rune: the ancient Germanic alphabet, having mysterious qualities
Sacral King: a tribes leader and high priest
Scop: a bard or poet, skald
Scyldbryta: herald who grants arms
Scyldcraeft: heraldry
Seemly: couth, well mannered
Seith: a magical practice
“Set wretched”: sent away, banished, made lordless
Sheriff: the reeve of a shire, a King’s man
Shild: obligation, debt (also scyld)
Shire: a subdivision of a Realm
Shoulder companions: tribal comrades
Skalk: Thrall, indentured apprentice
Sooth: truth
Spae: a form of magick aimed at divining the future
Speed: luck, spiritual energy
Squire: a learner in a martial order
Steward: a King’s representative who administers his halls
Sumble: a ritual drinking event Teutonic-Germanic
Thane / thegn / thain: a peer who serves a lord in a special way, a knightly rank
“The salt”: a term for station / rank, the peerage (above it)
Theod / thuid: a tribe
“There is a horn present”: phrase used to call a sumble to order
Thew / thoew / thiu: custom
Thing: a deliberative council at which binding decisions are made
Thiubok: a book of customs
Thrall / theow / skalk: time of apprenticeship in High Theodism to learn if it is right, literally “a slave”
Three Rings of Thew: The Votive Thews, the Existensial Thews and the Criterial Thews. That which binds together Theodsmen and makes possible our theological construct.
Thyle: advice, gods-inspired; one who advises a Lord
Tide: season
Tine: branch
Tivver: sticks
Troth: belief, faith, truth
Tyrstemn: a guided meditational experience
Under Bells: with some mission or geld owed
Under the cloak: term for divinatory practice
Unthewful: outside the bounds of good social behavior
Uthwitegan: learning
Vanir: the gods of the earth and nature
Ve/ wefod: altar
Vor tru: our faith
Votive Thews: sacral kingship, tribal affinity, web of oaths, worship of the Germanic Gods and Ancestors
Ward: a subdivision of a Shire
Warg: outlaw
Warrant: pledge, surety
Web of oaths: the connections between sworn men
Web of Wyrd: the well of fate
Wassail: contraction of the old English ‘wes thu hael’, literally “be of good health”
Wefodung-wrixil: wedding negotiations
Wefodthane: priest
Weh: holy (see also Halig)
Weltisichten: world view
Weregeld: man price, the money or reputation that warrants a man’s deeds
Wicca: a neo-pagan religion
Wif: wife
Wight: a person, or entity, spirits that inhabit middle earth
Winland Rice: the kingdom which currently embraces all of Gering Theod– the first theodish tribe
Wise: way
Wita: an advisor (literally “wizard”)
Witan: a king’s council
WKS: Wednesbury King’s School
Wordsmith: one who crafts words
Worth: innate value, to realize potential
Wretch: a man without a lord
Wyrd: the process of past actions directing the flow of the present
New Updates in our Tidings Page (06/26/08)
