A housecarl (Old Norse: húskarl; Old English: huscarl) was a non-servile manservant or household bodyguard in medieval Northern Europe. The institution...

Karl has the same root as churl and meant originally a "free man". As "housecarl", it came back to England. In German, Kerl is used to describe a somewhat...

personal armsmen, known as housecarls, who formed the backbone of the royal forces. Some earls also had their own forces of housecarls. Thegns, the local landowning...

a mix of the fyrd (militia mainly composed of foot soldiers) and the housecarls, or nobleman's personal troops, who usually also fought on foot. The main...

battle, "Harold and his housecarl bodyguard...fought on until an arrow struck the king in the eye." After Harold died, the housecarl bodyguard made a last...

army. The king and magnates retained professional household troops (see housecarl), and all free men were obligated to perform military service in the fyrd...

Ealdorman (Earl after c.1000) Hold / High-reeve Thegn (thane) Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff) Ceorl (churl, free tenant) Villein...

Ealdorman (Earl after c.1000) Hold / High-reeve Thegn (thane) Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff) Ceorl (churl, free tenant) Villein...

Ealdorman (Earl after c.1000) Hold / High-reeve Thegn (thane) Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff) Ceorl (churl, free tenant) Villein...

Ealdorman (Earl after c.1000) Hold / High-reeve Thegn (thane) Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff) Ceorl (churl, free tenant) Villein...

Ealdorman (Earl after c.1000) Hold / High-reeve Thegn (thane) Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff) Ceorl (churl, free tenant) Villein...

landed gentry over the drużyna as his base of power.[citation needed] Housecarl Leidang Hird Voluntary People's Druzhina, a civilian organization in the...

originally an informal retinue of personal armed companions, hirdmen or housecarls. Over time, it came to mean not only the nucleus ('Guards') of the royal...

invasion of Italy. Arimannus Mannerbund Comitatus (classical meaning) Fyrd Housecarl Druzhina Thingmen Varangian Guard Hird István Bóna: Der Anbruch des Mittelalters:...

Ealdorman (Earl after c.1000) Hold / High-reeve Thegn (thane) Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff) Ceorl (churl, free tenant) Villein...

druzhina, the Swedish/Norwegian hird, and the Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon housecarls. The Varangians served as the personal bodyguard of the emperor, swearing...

Ealdorman (Earl after c.1000) Hold / High-reeve Thegn (thane) Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff) Ceorl (churl, free tenant) Villein...

body. The English dead, who included some of Harold's brothers and his housecarls, were left on the battlefield. Gytha Thorkelsdóttir, Harold's mother,...

Ealdorman (Earl after c.1000) Hold / High-reeve Thegn (thane) Thingmen / housecarl (retainer) Reeve / Verderer (bailiff) Ceorl (churl, free tenant) Villein...

the king's men, "but luck isn't with him and he lacks a victory." The housecarl brought the men water and a towel to wash themselves. As the king was...

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of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game Lydia, a follower (housecarl) NPC in the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Lydia, a character...

century the infantry was strengthened by the addition of an elite force of housecarls. More recent research, however, suggests that there was only a select-fyrd...

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Gudfred in the early 9th century. In 810, Gudfred was assassinated by a housecarl, or, in Notker's version, by one of his sons as revenge for the treatment...

of men of Scandinavian descent and it had an initial strength of 3,000 housecarls and a fleet of 40 ships, which was subsequently reduced. Its last remnant...

the time of the Battle of Hastings. It revolves around Walt Edwinson, a housecarl of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. The story starts...

strong force of Danish mercenaries (housecarls) as his main force, an expensive and resented policy (the housecarls' leaders were later slaughtered by...

Learning of the Norwegian invasion he headed north at great speed with his housecarls and as many thegns as he could gather, travelling day and night. He made...

were the best of men in the land and abroad in the retinue, held their housecarls well. He fell in battle in the east in Garðar (Russia), commander of the...