thrall

• Klerkon deemed Thorolf too old for a thrall, and that he would be of no use, therefore slew he him, but took the boys with him and sold them to a man, hight Klerk, for a good he-goat A third man bought Olaf, and gave for him a good tunic or cloak. —  The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)
• Yet it might not be meekness so much as mere brutal necessity that held them all in thrall--the inexorable logic of conditions. —  The Daughters of Danaus
• She even gave me to understand that she would wed me as a thrall, if only Leif and Karlsefin would give their consent. —  The Norsemen in the West
• The girl loves the thrall--I can see that, as plain as I can see the vane on yonder mast-head--and there is no cure for love Karlsefin looked earnestly at his friend as if about to speak, but observing the stern frown on Leif's countenance, he forbore In a minute or so Karlsefin remarked quietly that Hake was a faithful thrall I'm not so sure of that as ye seem to be," returned Leif, with increasing sternness, "but, whether faithful or not, no thrall shall ever wed Bertha What is that you say about Bertha?" —  The Norsemen in the West
• As to that flat-nosed individual himself, when called upon to speak, he addressed the assembly with a dignity of manner and a racy utterance of language which amazed those who had only known him as a thrall, and who now for the first time met him as a freed man. —  Erling the Bold

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