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Definition of Housecarls
1. housecarl [n] - See also: housecarl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housecarls
Literary usage of Housecarls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"... nor does their name occur in any of the English Laws, but the incidental
mention of them by the name of housecarls, or by the equivalent name of ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1871)
"It is plain that, in the great struggle of all, Harold's own housecarls fully
bore out their character of being men any one of whom was a match for any ..."
3. The Dictionary of English History by Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling (1910)
"... after ordering a general muster in London, pressed southwards himself at the
head of his housecarls. At London, men flocked in from all southern England ..."
4. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"Grettir now got great blows from them, so that at all times he ran the risk of
much hurt; but the housecarls went home, and had much to say of their stout ..."
5. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell, Nathan Haskell Dole, Forrest Morgan, Caroline Ticknor (1898)
"Grettir now got great blows from them, so that at all times he ran the risk of
much hurt; but the housecarls went home, and had much to say of their stout ..."
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