jarls

But the king came to a better frame of mind, he called the jarls away, and returning humbly to his palace, took off his royal robes, and came again barefoot and in sackcloth to the church door, where Bishop William met him, took him by the hand, gave him the kiss of peace, and led him to the penitents 'place.

A Book of Golden Deeds Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

But the king came to a better frame of mind, he called the jarls away, and returning humbly to his palace, took off his royal robes, and came again barefoot and in sackcloth to the church door, where Bishop William met him, took him by the hand, gave him the kiss of peace, and led him to the penitents 'place.

A Book of Golden Deeds 1864

The four classes are thralls (slaves who are described as swarthy, twisted, and ugly), karls (freeman farmers, described as strong and ruddy, of red hair and complexion), jarls (earls, described as fair of skin and complexion), and the kings (even fairer than the jarls).

The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past 2010

The four classes are thralls (slaves who are described as swarthy, twisted, and ugly), karls (freeman farmers, described as strong and ruddy, of red hair and complexion), jarls (earls, described as fair of skin and complexion), and the kings (even fairer than the jarls).

The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past 2010

Oykel, called by the Norse Ekkjal, the northern and perhaps also the southern bank of which probably formed the ranges of hills known in the time of the earliest Norse jarls as Ekkjals-bakki.

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

The two jarls met in battle in the Pentland Firth, off Rautharbiorg or

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

Mr. A.W. Johnston, in his "_Orkney and Shetland Folk -- 850 to 1350_," [14] has worked out the quarterings of the Norse jarls, of whom only the first three were pure Norsemen, and he has thus shown conclusively how very Celtic they had become long before their male line failed.

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

For he robbed whom he pleased, made and undid jarls and earls as he chose, and was the friend or tool of more than one Scottish king.

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

Barelegs -- Hakon and Magnus, jarls -- Harold Slettmali and Paul the

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray

The same process was at work, probably to a greater extent, among those of lower rank, who could not find or import Norse wives, if they would, as the jarls frequently did.

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray