As we have already seen, the King's sudden death while the matter of tribute was still unsettled gave rise to the legend that Saint Edmund struck down the Dane "in like manner as the holy Mercurius slew the nithing Julian.
The nithing shall silence me never, Though now for their shame they attack me, But the wit of the Skald is my weapon, And the wine of the gods will uphold me.
It is avowedly so in the chronicle of Winifred, Ebba's daughter, telling the grim love-story of Earl Sweyn the Nithing and Algive.
Twice outlaw he, and Nithing by the word of the armed Gemot!
I shall be nithing in the eyes of all men," murmured Offa.
If one may not enter a wrongdoer's house to force out the guilty owner, much less should one force the nithing from God's house.
But if you falter and fail to meet me, I shall name you nithing from Rhine Stream to Trondheim Fiord.
The gods of our Northland were men truly, and did heroes' deeds; but as for this Lord of thine, methinks he deserved to die for thenithing and the coward that He was.
And search was made through the land for the nithing who had done this thing; yet, though they rode throughout all the King's borders, they found no trace of Osbert the Dane.
No scald can say we are nithing or weak," he said, "for we have fought a good fight.
Lead me to Hungwar, or to his noble brother, for I have heavy tidings to tell; and the soul of Regner Lodbrok calls aloud for vengeance, for the nithing deed and the shame deed that were done to him.
And to that Guthrun himself answered-- "I will prevent thee with my life; for of a truth this is but a nithing thing to do.
Surely you would not have me act a nithing part, and leave the son of Alfred in his hour of need?
No hero death did Regner die, but such a death as a nithing would have deserved; and yet he died a hero, and sang his death-song.
And now I tell thee, as the Wanderer has told thee, that thou art a nithing and a coward, and more fit to lead ravening wolves than to direct heroes.
But the son of Regner is no nithing nor weakling; and he has some warriors around him, Wanderer.
I must die, it shall not be with this nithingthing against my name!
And to that Wulnoth answered-- "It may be as thou sayest, Wahrmund, for this son of Regner is to my mind more of a nithing than a hero.
I should have done a nithing thing which the saga-men would never have forgotten.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nithing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
