It was Grinkel, the leader of our housecarles {1}.
We went across the great hall, where the housecarles slept around the walls, sword under pillow, and spear at side.
Even the rough housecarles would watch for a chance of doing some little service for her.
Fifty of his own housecarles would go, and Relf's twenty.
Now the day after the housecarles left Pevensea, there befell a matter which would have brought them back hastily had we not been in the haven.
And Eadmund slept that night among a great host; and in the morning the Wessex men were going home, and only his own housecarles and the men who followed him from ruined Mercia and East Anglia and Kent would bide around him.
Wulfnoth was not sorry for this, for it was full harvest time, and he sent his housecarles out to his other manors to gather it, so that he had few folk about him.
Nor is there need, for the housecarles sing them even yet.
Then Ealhstan bade us sit down, for our horsemen were between us and the foe, and thereon he raised his voice, and with one accord his lay brethren and his own housecarles joined in singing a psalm of victory.
In that year he sailed to the Baltic to claim the throne in person, taking with him nine ships, fewer than one thousand men; the rest of the new force of housecarleswas doubtless left in Britain as a matter of security.
The ships that the King brought from England were doubtless large and well-manned: Canute's housecarles may have made up a considerable part of the crews.
Housecarles were sometimes employed as tax collectors, and it seems probable that Ali, too, was a member of the great corps.
When thehousecarles were invited to the King's tables, they were seated according to their eminence in warfare, priority of service, or nobility of birth.
The attention of the Londoners was diverted to other parts of the city by feigned excitement at the farther gates, for which the King's housecarles were responsible.
The sagas are evidently correct in stating that the force of housecarles "had been chosen from many lands, though chiefly from those of the Danish [Old Norse] tongue.
It seems likely that individual housecarles might have homes of their own; at any rate, many of them in time came into possession of English lands as we know from Domesday.
It is likely that housecarles are also alluded to in the following Scanian inscription: Sweyn and Thurgot raised this monument in memory of Manna and Sweyn.
In addition to the English and Danish ships, there were evidently not a few that were manned by the housecarles of disaffected Norwegian chiefs.
The housecarles who guarded the royal person and interests were in large part of Scandinavian birth or blood.
The housecarles were heavily armed, as we know from the description of a ship that Earl Godwin presented to Harthacanute as a peace offering a few years after Canute's death.
All quarrels were decided in an assembly of the housecarles in the presence of the King.
Though the housecarles are presumed to have possessed horses, the guard was in no sense a cavalry force.
Accompanying this fair girl was a favourite maid, and one of her father's housecarleswho filled the office of ranger and provider for the household, in the matters of fish and game.
Whilst the banquet was proceeding, one of the housecarles drew near and whispered to the thane that Saxon runners had arrived with messages from the king which permitted no delay.
The followers and housecarles who had accompanied their masters, had found resting-places in the outhouses, amid the hay and bracken which had been accumulated for the fodder and bedding of the cattle during the winter months.
Down each side of the hall also there were side tables, where the housecarles and villeins fed.
Unfortunately there is no place of safety for her, for the remnant of her father's housecarles and fiefs are a scattered band, and outlaws.
And their housecarles went with them, forty men, tried and trained, who had vowed to follow Hereward round the world.
I and Martin to spy out the land; and a dozen or so of housecarles to take care of the ship in harbor.
Winter and thehousecarles formed round him and the women, and hurried down the hall, while the savages hurried up the ladder, to quarrel over their spoil.
But this time, if the story of the sub-prior was to be believed, Hereward and his housecarles had taken an ugly stride forward toward the pit.
Promise me that, if you can help it, none of my poor housecarles shall suffer for my sins.
And has brought out of Scotland a few gallant gentlemen, and stout housecarles of my acquaintance.
He kept forty gallant housecarles in his hall all the winter, and Torfrida and her lasses made and mended their clothes.
So sang Hereward, after his heathen fashion; and his housecarles applauded the song.
These valiant gentlemen, with the housecarles whom, more or fewer, they would bring with them, constituted a formidable force, as after years proved well.
The housecarles rushed in on Hereward, who had enough to do to keep them at arm's length by long sweeps of his sword.
King Edward had 15 acres in which housecarles dwelt.
For he would ever leave the hall as at this time, so that the housecarles and lesser guests might have greater freedom of talk when we were gone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "housecarles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
