folkmoot , also: folkmot , also: folkmote

The matter could be heard at the next folkmoot, less than two moons away.

"Instead, the raiders contented themselves with taking out the Folkmoot's main command center.

The folkmoot was well attended by Lord Hugh's tenants, for it promised good entertainment as well as justice.

Why he chose to announce another verdict to the folkmoot, and to enact the penalty so swiftly I intend to discover for myself in due course.

One month after Border presented his plan, a board of directors began work on the first Folkmoot USA.

The Southeast Tourism Society has named Folkmoot USA one of its top twenty events for 20 years.

Fitzthomas based his power on a militia and a revived 'folkmoot', the traditional assembly of all the citizens, whose vitality had been sapped under the aldermanic regime.

Now the aldermen and magnates of the city were ignored as the folkmoot elected Fitzthomas mayor in the Octobers of 1263 and 1264.

The Folkmoot USA non-profit organization has its headquarters in the former Hazelwood Elementary School.

The previous name for the event was North Carolina International Folk Festival, Folkmoot USA.

The North Carolina General Assembly declared Folkmoot USA to be the state's official international folk festival in 2003.

Yocona International Folk Festival in northern Mississippi claims to have been inspired by Folkmoot USA.

In 2007, Folkmoot USA executive director Jamye Cooper helped start the Yocona Festival.

It has organized an U.S. tour in 2006 and participated at Folkmoot USA festival (North Carolina).

The Entmoot in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings uses the same root word as the folkmoot.

In Anglo-Saxon England, a folkmoot or folkmote (Old English - "folk meeting") was a governing general assembly consisting of all the free members of a tribe, community or district.

Blinking in the brightness long denied me, stumbling on legs reluctant to obey me, I was conveyed none too gently down to the hall, which was set up for a formal hearing of the folkmoot.

The Witenagemot (folkmoot) of Early Medieval England, councils of advisors to the kings of the petty kingdoms and then that of a unified England before the Norman Conquest.

Most groups that perform for Folkmoot USA have some connection to CIOFF, and in case of a last-minute cancellation, CIOFF connections can find a replacement.

In England the folkmoot in time came to be a more specific term for a local assembly with recognized legal rights and in Scotland the term is used in the literature for want of any other single accepted term.

The popular party planned, in 1265, to try him for his life before the folkmoot (a "meeting of the people"), but he was saved by the news of the battle of Evesham which arrived on the very day appointed for the trial.

A king (cyning) was elected from among eligible members of a royal family or cynn by the witena gemōt, an assembly of an elite that replaced the earlier folkmoot, which was the equivalent of the Germanic thing, the assembly of all free men.

"He is an important man, after all, his voice strong in the folkmoot, and-and very busy while the fleet is here, not just as a chandler but-well, when you deal with men of many nations, it becomes politics and schemes and-" He was not wont to speak thus awkwardly.

In the 1960s and 1970s RoadKnight appeared on numerous television programmes including Folkmoot, hosted by Leonard Teale, Dave's Place, hosted by the Kingston Trio's Dave Guard, and the ABC national weekly current affairs program Open-End.

The first 'folkmoot' (or general assembly of the people) known to be held here was by John Mansell, a king's justice, on St Paul's Day in 1236, to announce to them that Henry III wished London to be well-governed and its liberties guarded.