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| He is very powerful. Everyone in the village has to do what he says and come and work on his land for one or more days a week: ploughing, harrowing, weeding, harvesting, haymaking & ditching. He is very rich. He can afford to live in a great hall where he can feast and his minstrel can entertain his friends. This stands in a special enclosed area away from the rest of the village where there are also other buildings for the thane to use. | Thane
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He has made a promise to be loyal to the King and has a job as one of the Royal huntsman. He must join the the King's army in times of war, and bring men from the village with him. Cutha has a seal (for sealing letters and documents) to prove how important he is. Cutha pays for the repair roads and bridges for the villagers and makes sure everyone obeys the laws. When he is not there, his steward or 'village reeve' runs things for him. | Thane
| Lives in a the grub hut of Cadfan the Slave. He has to share it with another slave called Rhun. It is also a tool shed. They belong to Wilfrid the Thatcher. Their grub-hut is next to their master's house. | slave
| Both of them have to work very hard from dawn till dusk on their master's land and looking after his animals. Sometimes they have to help out fetching and carrying for the thatching business too. | slave
| Wulfgar is an iron worker. He makes weapons and farming and other tools. He also makes horse shoes and shoes horses. Iron is not mined in the local area, so he buys iron bars from local traders. They usually come from Sussex or Gloucestershire. | blacksmith
| He is a very skilled craftsman. He heats up iron in his furnace and hammers, folds and reheats it to make it strong. He then shapes it and plunges it into water to cool it down. (Later Saxons made these techniques even better). | blacksmith
| Leofwine makes things out of wood. He is also a wheelwright. His special skill is using the lathe (equipment for cutting round or cylindrical wood), so some people call him Leofwine the Turner. | carpenter
| He makes posts, planks, rafters and pegs (instead of nails) for buildings. He makes buckets, handles for tools and weapons, furniture, looms, doors, boxes, chests and carts. He can also make bowls, cups, plates, spoons; even musical instruments and coffins. Leofwine gets wood from trees he cuts down with his axe in the nearby forest. | carpenter |
