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A thrall was a slave [1] or serf in Scandinavian lands during the Viking Age. The status of slave ( þræll , þēow ) contrasts with that of the freeman ( karl , ceorl ) and the nobleman ( jarl , eorl ).
Automatic Man formed in San Francisco around 1975 when drummer Michael Shrieve decided to quit Santana to explore other musical avenues. That led him to work with ex-Traffic/Spencer Davis group singer/keyboardist Steve Winwood, percussionist Stomu Yamashta, and synthesizer player Klaus Schulze on the Go album, an album of experimental progressive rock that had been released by Island Records a ...
In German, Kerl is used to describe a somewhat rough and common man and is no longer in use as a synonym for a common soldier (die langen Kerls [4] of King Frederick William I of Prussia). Rígsþula, a poem in the Poetic Edda, explains the social classes as originating from the three sons of Ríg: Thrall, Karl and Earl (Þræl, Karl and Jarl).
She played a stripping nun in the comedy film Good-bye, Cruel World (1983), and appeared in such cult classic features as The Lost Empire (1984), Repo Man (1984), Biohazard (1985), and Mike Jittlov's film The Wizard of Speed and Time (1989), where she played an assistant to a movie executive (and designed her own costumes).
The compound noun weregild means "remuneration for a man", from Proto-Germanic *wira-"man, human" and *geld-a-"retaliation, remuneration". [2] In the south Germanic area, this is the most common term used to mean "payment for killing a man" (Old High German werigelt, Langobardic wergelt, Old English wer(e)gild), whereas in the North Germanic area, the more common term is Old Norse mangæld ...
Grand Admiral Thrawn (full name: Mitth'raw'nuruodo; born: Kivu'raw'nuru [1]) is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He first appeared in what came to be known as the Thrawn trilogy of novels (1991–1993) by Timothy Zahn.
1.4 Automatic Man. 1.5 Alphonso Johnson. 1.6 Pat Travers Band. 1.7 Hughes/Thrall. 1.8 Dan Aykroyd & Tom Hanks. 1.9 Sly and Robbie. ... Patrick Thrall is an American ...
After the band's breakup, Attaway recorded one solo album, titled In Thrall, which was released by DGC Records in 1993, produced by Tony Berg. [2] An alternate version of the track "Allegory" from In Thrall was included on DGC Rarities, Vol. 1 .