Then there came a cry like a howl of rage from the hall, but no word of command as yet, nor did either housecarle come out that I could hear.
But I found afterwards that he had been lamed once, and tended by the monks, and so had bided in the abbey, liking the life, though he had been a stout housecarle to some thane or other.
And presently a housecarle spoke to him, and he rose up and left the hall.
And neither I nor she thought shame that I should lay my arm round her, and kiss her there, with the grim old housecarle standing by and pretending to look out over Stert, where the light of my fires shone above the trees.
And the housecarle stared at him as at one gone suddenly mad; but I knew only too well that his worst fears were on the way to be realized, and that soon there would be no force left on Cannington Hill.
The half-Danish and Danish folk of the East Angles owned Swein as king, though not willingly, and a housecarle from Wormingford made his way to us with word from Gunnhild that set our minds at rest.
I suppose the earl's housecarle thought I was unarmed.
That Sweyn appreciated the loyalty of his men is evident from the runic monument that he raised to his housecarle Skartha who had shared in the English warfare.
It is said that the King himself was the first who seriously violated the guard-laws, in that he slew a housecarle in a moment of anger.
He is a housecarle of mine, Lord King, a good man and true; but old age and rough Danish blood has made him forget that he stands before kings and earls.
But old Surturbrand the housecarle did more; for out he stepped to your father's side, and spoke right up before the King.
Grani turns to the housecarle of Snorri, and says: "Beg thy master to come!
Now as they spoke someone knocked at the door, and there was a housecarle of Snorri the Priest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "housecarle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
