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Anglo-Saxon local militia in Britain. All
freemen were obliged to defend their shire
but, by the 11th century, a distinction was
drawn between the great fyrd, for local
defence, and the select fyrd, drawn from
better-equipped and experienced warriors who
could serve farther afield.