jarl

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Eirik the jarl was an able ruler, and they had much discussion regarding the laws and their administration.

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  1. noun A medieval Scandinavian chieftain or nobleman.

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  • But white locks of matted hair framed his diminutive, wrinkled face Doc Savage instantly identified him as a jarl, one of the sub-chiefs of the coastal clan Na! —  040 - Haunted Ocean
  • When he saw the fleet of the Sea-kings approaching, he called Jarl Rongvold to him and said Methinks, jarl, that I now see the end of this war with the small kings. —  Erling the Bold
  • But a ship that had sprung a leak in some way put into Wulfnoth's haven at Shoreham from this fleet, and from thence we learnt that the Danes had halved their forces, and that Cnut and Ulf the jarl were going again into the Severn to withstand Eadmund in Wessex, and if possible to hem him in between two forces in the old way of the days of Alfred. —  King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut
  • I saw him ride to Ulf the jarl, and I saw Ulf turn his shoulder on him, and then he sought Rink, and that chief spoke but a word to him, so that he tried not to reach Cnut, who never looked at him Then I saw Ulfkytel's men breaking and taking to the marshes, where the Danes cared not to follow them. —  King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut
  • "Now I see you three--prince, jarl, and thane--as I might have known you to be at first. —  A Sea Queen's Sailing
 

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  1. Old Norse.

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  1. Icelandic, = Danish Swedish jarl= Anglo-Saxon eorl, English earl: see earl.
 

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