The freeman is emphatically called Man, ceorl, _mas_, _maritus_; wæpned man, _armatus_; after the prevalence of slavery, he is, for distinction, termed _free_, frigman, frihals, i. e., _free neck_, the hand of a master has not bent his neck[211]; but his oldest and purest denomination is ceorl. Till a very late period the Anglosaxon law knows no other distinction than that of ceorl and eorl[212]. The Old Norse Rígsmál which is devoted to the origin of the races, considers Karl as the representative of the freeman. His sons are Halr, Anglosaxon, Hæle, _vir_; Drengr, Anglos. Dreng, _vir_; þegen, Anglos. þegn, _vir fortis_, _miles_, _minister_; Höldr, Anglos. hold, _pugil_, _fidelis_; Búi, Anglos. gebúr, _colonus_; Bondi, Anglos. bonda, _colonus_; Smiðr, Anglos. Smið, _faber_; Seggr, Anglos. Secg, _vir_. Among the daughters are Snót, Brúðr, Flioð and Wíf. Many of these terms yet survive, to represent various classes of freemen in almost every Germanic country[213]. ----- Footnote 211: The converse is _collibertus_, _qui collum liberavit_, _culvert_, _coward_. Footnote 212: Swá eác we settað be eallum hádum, ge ceorle, ge eorle: “so also we ordain concerning all degrees of men, churl as well as earl.” Leg. Ælfr. § 4. Footnote 213: Conf. Grimm, Deut. Rechtsalt. 283. The Latin laws of the Middle Ages usually adopt the words, _Liber_, _liber homo_, _ingenuus_. In reference to the noble, he is _mediocris_, _minofledus_, καταδεέστερος; in respect of his wife, he is _baro_. -----