Talk:Thurbrand the Hold

A fact from Thurbrand the Hold appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 January 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the eastern Yorkshire peninsula Holderness, according to the suggestion of some historians, takes its name from Thurbrand the Hold, killer of the Northumbrian earl Uhtred the Bold?

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WHY CALLED 'THE HOLD'?

anyone? Cramyourspam (talk) 15:36, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In A History of the County of York: the City of York the footnote in the section 'before the Norman conquest' says 'Hold' was a rank between earl and thegn - the background section of this Wiki article also references other sources which give this as the reason for the name. EdwardUK (talk) 15:54, 7 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]