cyning

In days long past, a couple would gather before their "cyning" - their kindred, the extended kith and kin.

The Bilerico Project Antonia D'orsay 2010

Hengest in the fragment is called cyning, whereas in _Beówulf_, l. 1086, he is called þegn.

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

Hengest in the fragment is called cyning, whereas in _Bēowulf_, l. 1086, he is called þegn.

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

Second, and related, there are numerous reflections on what makes a good king - not just the narrator's own oft-repeated phrase, "þæt wæs god cyning!" but also discourses from various characters in the midst of the action.

October Books 2) The Historian nwhyte 2008

Scyld, we are told, wæs god cyning (was a good king).

Archive 2007-12-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

Syððan ærest wearð feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah, oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning!

Dissertation Fragments II: Horizons of History Mary Kate Hurley 2007

Scyld, we are told, wæs god cyning (was a good king).

Dissertation Fragments II: Horizons of History Mary Kate Hurley 2007

Syððan ærest wearð feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah, oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning!

Archive 2007-12-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

Syððan ærest wearð feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah, oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning!

Archive 2006-06-01 2006

Syððan ærest wearð feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah, oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning!

Poetry Friday 2006