earl

earl
earl O.E. eorl "brave man, warrior, leader, chief" (contrasted with ceorl "churl"), from P.Gmc. *erlo-z, of uncertain origin. In Anglo-Saxon poetry, "a warrior, a brave man;" in later O.E., "nobleman," especially a Danish under-king (equivalent of cognate O.N. jarl), then one of the viceroys under the Danish dynasty in England. After 1066 adopted as the equivalent of L. comes (see COUNT (Cf. count) (n.)).

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