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Definition of Housecarl
1. n. A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.
Definition of Housecarl
1. Noun. (historical) A member of the Scandinavian royal household troops. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Housecarl
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housecarl
Literary usage of Housecarl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"housecarl.—Offic. 'the house- carl.' A soldier, one of a paid military force
originally organized by Cnut (Canute) : Freeman, NC 1.440; ..."
2. The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"There were places in the moors and mountains which the mailed housecarl might
reach, if with difficulty, but which the mounted knight could not reach at all ..."
3. Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law by Henry Adams, Henry Cabot Lodge, Ernest Young, James Laurence Laughlin (1905)
"It begins by confirming a gift of land made by his housecarl, Thurstan. to the
king's favorite foundation of Westminster: ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Henry Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams (1901)
"... identity is proved not only by that of his English predecessor in all his
lands, namely " Achi the housecarl," but by his heir's return of fees in 1166. ..."
5. Feudal England: Historical Studies on the XIth and XIIth Centuries, by J. H by John Horace Round (1895)
"s Such a defence savours of the days when the knight, fighting on foot with his
lance,4 had replaced the housecarl with his battle-axe : it was not that of ..."
6. Origines Islandicae: A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other by Frederick York Powell, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1905)
"The housecarl bought the hummock and then dug in the earth there, and found a
man's bones. He took them up and carried them home with him. ..."
7. The Orkneyinga Saga by Jón A. Hjaltalín, Joseph Anderson, Gilbert Goudie (1873)
"... a housecarl of Earl Harald's. This money had been left at the homestead, but
the owners were in ..."
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