Note 364 — Chapter V · THE GERÉFA.
Reading edition
“Eliguntur in iisdem conciliis et principes, qui iura per pagos vicosque reddunt.” Tac. Germ. xii. Some tribes may have called these principes by one name, some by another: ealdorman, ǽsaga, lahmon, are all legitimate appellations for a geréfa.