单词 | housecarl |
释义 | housecarln. historical in later use. A retainer or member of the household troops of an (esp. Scandinavian) king or noble. Also: (in late Anglo-Saxon and Norman England) a man of thegn's rank, esp. one of Scandinavian descent.In Old English apparently originally used with reference to the Scandinavian retainers of Cnut, who reigned as King of England, 1016–35 (cf. quot. lOE3). Danish sources of the late 12th cent. attribute an elaborate institutionalized code of conduct to Cnut's bodyguard, but there seems to be no contemporary evidence for this.In quots. 1817, 1921 apparently ultimately reflecting the lower status of housecarls in West Norse sources (see etymological note). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed retainer > [noun] housecarlOE lede kempc1275 lede knightc1275 lede thegnc1275 sergeant-at-arms1377 servanta1400 myrmidon1620 OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 1041 Her let Harðacnut hergian eall Wihracestrescire for his twegra huscarla þingon, ðe þæt strange gyld budon. lOE Writ of Edward the Confessor (Sawyer 1121) in F. E. Harmer Anglo-Saxon Writs (1952) 344 Swa full & swa forð swa Þurstan min huskarll hit furmest of me heold. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 1070 Þa comen into Elig Cristien þa densce biscop & Osbearn eorl & þa densca huscarles mid heom. lOE Bounds (Sawyer 969) in M. A. O'Donovan Charters of Sherborne (1988) 68 Þis ys þæra vii hida landboc to Hortune þe Cnut cining gebocode Bouige hys huskarle on ece yrfe. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 576 They had slaine his Huscarles [L. huscarlos]. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. vi. 277 Hardecnute sending his Housecarles, so they call'd his Officers, to gather the Tribute impos'd. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. App. i. 97 He summoned from all parts his huscarles or houseceorles and retainers. 1778 Hist. Cheshire I. p. lxvii When earl Godwin besieged the Confessor in London, he summoned together from all parts his huscarles. 1817 Sale-Room 29 Mar. 99/1 He was found dead, with his face quite black, supposed to have been strangled by the ghost of a house-carl, or slave. 1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. vi. 441 The Housecarls were in fact a standing army. 1873 E. Thompson Hist. Eng. vii. 26 The thanes and house-carls were slaughtered almost to a man around their fallen standard. 1921 A. Orbeck tr. H. Ibsen Olaf Liljekrans ii. ix, in Early Plays 198 Ingeborg has a fancy for your house-carl. 2003 R. A. Fletcher Bloodfeud viii. 168 Accompanied by his housecarls he [sc. Harold] covered the two hundred-odd miles between York and London in an extraordinary short space of time. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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