Lexicographical Neighbors of Jarldoms
Literary usage of Jarldoms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban by William Forbes Skene (1880)
"... and subdued the country wherever he went; and that till the day of his death
he possessed nine jarldoms in Scotland and the whole of the ..."
2. England Before the Norman Conquest: Being a History of the Celtic, Roman and by Charles William Chadwick Oman (1910)
"All malcontents were promised revenge for their old wrongs, and jarldoms and
official posts were dangled before the eyes of the ambitious. ..."
3. History of the Norwegian People by Knut Gjerset (1915)
"The petty kingdoms, jarldoms, and aristocratic confederacies were welded by Harald
into a national monarchy with a system of government and administration ..."
4. The Dictionary of English History by Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling (1910)
"... in the remotest part of the island, became the centres of Norse jarldoms.
With characteristic facility, the new-comers soon mixed with the natives. ..."
5. Ireland and the Making of Britain by Benedict Fitzpatrick (1921)
"... or Cumberland, to Malcolm so that the Scottish kings ruled over all Scotland,
except the Scandinavian jarldoms of Caithness, Sutherland, and the Isles, ..."
6. A History of England and the British Empire by Arthur Donald Innes (1913)
"... been broken up into petty kingdoms and jarldoms, which might ultimately have
become consolidated in the same sort of fashion as the Scandinavian kingdom ..."
7. An Introductory History of England by Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher (1907)
"... great "jarldoms" or "earldoms." Godwin, Earl of Wessex, grandson of a cowherd
they said; Leofric, Earl of Mercia, grandson of no one knows who; Siward, ..."
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