These thrallswere slaves, though slavery in Iceland assumed peculiar features.
But his relation, Eyulf Soeirs, killed thethralls at Kneide-Brinke above Vatshorn.
Cousins came in bands from all points of the compass: dependents, freedmen and thralls all mustered strong.
Is it likely that I will wait all day while two thrallsquarrel over precedence?
When the house-thralls had cleared away the tables, they crept into a corner and stayed there, fearing even to go forward and replenish the sinking fire, though gusts of bitter cold came through the broken window behind them.
Leif shows a keen wit in taking Eric a present of corn," Sigurd explained, as they dodged the loaded thralls running up and down the gangways.
He has gone hunting with Thorwald Ericsson," one of the housethralls informed him.
Outside the fence there was nearly always a mob of children and paupers and thralls lying in wait, like a wolf-pack, to tear information out of any member of the household who should venture beyond the gates.
Two thralls will bring it as soon as it can be weighed.
This to him, the slave-born son of Eric's free steward, who held the whip-hand over all the thralls at Brattahlid!
This will make the third of Leif's thralls that you have slain; and you have no blood-money to pay him.
Eventually they reached land in safety, and there was only one ox, so the thrallshad to drag the plow.
Thralls came from the Earl of Ladir to carry her away by force, but Worm (despite his name) was a man of spirit and fire.
And when he saw his brother dead he said, "It was a pitiful death for a brave man that thralls should slay him, but I see how it goes with those who will never perform sacrifice.
It came into his mind that the thralls must have run away thither, for the boat had disappeared.
Withal he had thirty house-carles to work all needful service in the garth, and at whatso ingatherings were needful; he had many thralls withal.
But, mind you, it will not be thralls and evildoers that I shall offer to your gods.
Now, in the marketplace of one of the Esthonian seaports many thralls were brought for sale, and, among other thralls who were to be sold, Lodin saw a certain woman.
Over fifty per cent are thralls by virtue of the fact that they are merely tenants or are mortgaged.
And likewise the two thralls of divine Odysseus went within.
Misuse ye not this stranger, neither any of the thralls that are in the house of godlike Odysseus.
Go to then, I also will bestow on him a stranger's gift, that he in turn may give a present either to the bath-woman, or to any other of the thralls within the house of godlike Odysseus.
There was his house, and all about it ran the huts wherein the thralls were wont to eat and dwell and sleep, bondsmen that worked his will.
But if thy lord return not according to my word, set thy thralls upon me, and cast me down from a mighty rock, that another beggar in his turn may beware of deceiving.
Misuse ye not this stranger, nor any of the thralls that are in the house of godlike Odysseus.
Were they chosen men of Ithaca or hirelings and thralls of his own?
Now he found not Dolius there, as he went down into the great garden, nor any of the thralls nor of their sons.
When he started back in the spring, the king gave him two thralls as a parting gift.
They saw the ten thralls sitting about a bonfire eating.
But that same day the thralls came back from looking for the posts.
They took the horns, when the thralls had filled them, and carried them to the men with some merry word.
He had his thralls plant large crops of grain and grind flour and make new kegs and chests of wood.
I saw their sour looks and was afraid, but Leif only laughed: "'What else can thralls expect?
At the end of the feast Ingolf had his thralls dig these pillars up.
When they went to the shore to start off again, the Shetland man had his thralls carry a keg of ale and a great kettle of cooked meat and put them into the ship.
Before a meal thralls brought trestles into the feast hall and set them before the benches.
Now one day soon after that the thralls came running to the house calling out: "'The ox is dead!
But lo, thou, this iron on my foot is token that I am a thrall, and thou knowest in what wise thralls must pay for transgressions.
Then Eric's thralls caused a landslide on Valthiof's farm, Valthiofsstadir.
Surely then," said he, "it shall be worse, and all men save a few shall be thralls to be bought and sold at the cross.
The monk started, then raised a loud cry, which speedily brought two or three men in the dress of thralls (theows) to his side.
Last came captives, some going afoot and some for weariness borne in wains; for all these war-taken thralls were women and women-children; of males there was not so much as a little lad.
But why then do ye slay all their carles that are taken; whereas ye bear away the women and make thrallsof them at home, that is to say, foes in every house?
They brought us in, and the thralls left supper to tend our horses, though Wulfhere would go with them to see that done before he joined us in the wide oak-built room that made all the lower floor of the house.
I, fearing no reproach from that just now, and being sure that by this time the man knew all about me from our thralls with us.
Every soul in all the countryside had fled into the town, though after the levy came a great mixed crowd of thrallsand the like to see the fray.
But the man was beat, and the thralls might not bear it.
They knew who I was well enough; but thralls may not question the ways of a thane, as I was yet in their eyes, though outlawed.
But I was glad to have this secret as a sort of hold over this man, for thralls are not to be trusted far, nor was I in a mood to put much faith in any.
I was in the midst of that crowd of thralls once, but they thinned, taking to the woods whence I had come; while I kept on.
No man's man am I, either free or unfree, but son of escaped thralls who are dead long ago.
No law extended its protection to them; and yet maltreatment of thralls was, both in Iceland and Norway, regarded as unworthy of a freeman.
I will not take thralls and criminals; but I will sacrifice the most high-born men and the mightiest peasants.
Of thrallshe kept thirty for his daily attendance, besides a large number who cultivated his lands.
One evening the earl sent a company of thralls to the house of the powerful peasant Brynjulf, commanding him to send him his wife, who was renowned for her beauty.
They were often thralls or freedmen, and were looked down upon by the yeomanry as their inferiors.
Many of the thralls were artisans, and a large number of those who had been enthralled as prisoners of war were men of intelligence and enterprise.
The royal stewards were usually men of low birth; sometimes even thrallsor sons of thralls.
Brynjulf refused, and the earl in great anger sent the thralls back with this message to the indignant husband, that he had the choice between death and the surrender of his wife.
Therefore they set the high-born sons of Troy There in the midst, spear-thralls although they were, To give just judgment in the warriors' strife.
Therefore mine heart too Is set on this, that to the thralls of war This judgment we commit: the loser then Shall against Troy devise his deadly work Of vengeance, and shall not be wroth with us.
Thralls were permitted to purchase their freedom--and all the descendants of those freed thralls, or unfreemen, were free.
Thralls were slaves taken in war, over whom the owners had absolute control.
Most of the carles and thralls were content to wear thick shirts of wolf and other skins, which were found to offer good resistance to a sword-cut, and some of them had portions of armour of various kinds.
He used to give his thralls a certain day's work; but after it was done he gave them leave and leisure to work in the twilight and at night for themselves.
I wish a Bedouin flissa would cut my thrallsin two.
He wondered with a dull sense of aching impatience why no Bedouin bullet, no Arab saber, had ever found his own life out, and cut his thralls asunder.
Thralls were obtained in the lands raided, but even after they became Christians the Scandinavians raided and enslaved each other.
In Valhalla the hero set thralls to work for his conquered victim, to give him footbath, light fire, bind dogs, groom horses, and feed swine.
In the heroic age of Scandinavia we find thatthralls are sacrificed at Upsala at solemn feasts in honor of the heathen gods.
If the negro is the thrall of his master, we are just as much the thralls of public opinion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thralls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
