housecarl

• But it did not seem right to me that an atheling of Wessex should be alone, without so much as a housecarl to tend him and stand at his back at need. —  A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford
• Good it has been to have you here; and I think that I shall see you as a housecarl for good yet. —  Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln
• He ordered that each native soldier and housecarl should be presented in the winter season with three marks of silver, a common or hired soldier with two, a private soldier who had finished his service with only one. —  The Danish History, Books I-IX
• One man, too, in the dress of a housecarl, lay not far off, wounded sorely. —  A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford
• "Matter of ten or twelve miles, lord," said the housecarl. —  A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford

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