All the inhabitants, excepting the Druids, were trained early to war, and every clan or family fought in a separate band, under the King of its particular nation, and a War King elected as chief general.
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War-king
Synonyms for "war-king"
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Turner thinks that the Bret-walda [...] was a war-king, elected by the other Anglo-Saxon kings and their nobility, as their leader in the time of war.
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[T]he fire-dragon had rased the coastal region and reduced forts and earthworks to dust and ashes, so the war-king planned and plotted his revenge.
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