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Housecarl is a calque of the original Old Norse term, húskarl, which literally means "house man". Karl is cognate to the Old English churl, or ceorl, meaning a man, or a non-servile peasant. [2] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle uses hiredmenn as a term for all paid warriors and thus is applied to housecarl, but it also refers to butsecarls [a] and ...
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The hird (also named "Håndgangne Menn" in Norwegian), in Scandinavian history, was originally an informal retinue of personal armed companions, [1] hirdmen or housecarls.Over time, it came to mean not only the nucleus ('Guards') of the royal army but also a more formal royal court household.
A churl (Old High German karal), in its earliest Old English (Anglo-Saxon) meaning, was simply "a man" or more particularly a "free man", [1] but the word soon came to mean "a non-servile peasant", still spelled ċeorl(e), and denoting the lowest rank of freemen.
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Richard Huskard (fl. 1278?–1333) was an Anglo-Irish settler. He was an ancestor of the family of Skerrett, who later became one of The Tribes of Galway.Later bearers of the name included John Skerrett (Mayor) (fl.1491–1492) and John Skerrett (Augustinian) (c.1620–c.1688).
Alf of Leifa-steads (~1200–1240) was a Housecarl, commander of the vårbelger (Norwegian Civil War), and liegeman of Duke Skule Bårdsson. He enters history as a Housecarl of Arnbjorn Johnson who was a kingsman. In 1235 he did fealty to Skule becoming his liegeman. [1]